topic Convert local to global macro vice versa used %global in SAS Programming

Convert local to global macro vice versa used %global

sas_ — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 09:25:56 GMT

I wnat to convert the local to gloabl and global to local macro variables
can any one help me with some examples

in the above i have tryed like this

%macro a;
%let loc=10;
%put &loc;
%mend;

%a;

%global &loc;

Tryed

%global loc;

%put &loc;

it should reove to 10 but it was not resloving

Ksharp — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 09:35:06 GMT

LOCAL --> GLOBAL

%macro a;
%global global_loc;

%let loc=10;
%let global_loc=&loc;
%mend;

%a

%put &global_loc;

Ksharp

sas_ — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 10:12:23 GMT

small query is there any thing that we can convert global to local macros

Ksharp — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 11:41:42 GMT

Sure. You can't force global macro variable to be local, but you can pass the value of gloale to local.

%global global_loc;
%let global_loc=Merry_Christmas;


%macro a;
%let loc=&global_loc;
%put &loc;
%mend;

%a

Ksharp