topic Re: How to create permanent macro in SAS Studio? in SAS Programming

How to create permanent macro in SAS Studio?

Nietzsche — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 21:05:20 GMT

Hi guys, I am doing lesson 6 of the Programming 1 course, here I have to create a macro that stores the file path to export destination folder.

however the macro disappears every time I reset my SAS studio session, is there a make the macro permanent?

Re: How to create permanent macro in SAS Studio?

Tom — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 21:10:19 GMT

First thing. That code is not creating a macro. It is creating a macro variable (also called a symbol). A macro is defined by the %MACRO statement.

The answer is NO. There is no such thing.

But you can create an autoexec.sas file that runs every time you start a new SAS session. So you could put code in there that creates the macro variable or does anything else you want to happen every time you start SAS.

Re: How to create permanent macro in SAS Studio?

Nietzsche — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 21:14:36 GMT

thank you, I will look into autoexec.sas and thanks for the clarification on the terminology.