topic #BYVAL(variable) and other BY statement variable directives in SAS Programming

#BYVAL(variable) and other BY statement variable directives

data_null__ — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 13:09:51 GMT

The BY statement variable directives can be used in many places other than TITLE statement where they were first introduced.

I wrote some code (some sort of macro thing) where a variable can contain #byval(variable) and I replace that with the BY value using VVALUEX, and TRANSTRN etc. Of course I could have used another syntax but I don't like to invent my own, where there exists a perfectly good one.

Seems like there should be a way to use what has already been done by SAS to support this kind of replacement, I was thinking a function might exist but did not find one.

Re: #BYVAL(variable) and other BY statement variable directives

Astounding — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 13:26:55 GMT

I'm not as familiar with this as I should be, but ...

I would imagine that ODS templates can take care of this.

Re: #BYVAL(variable) and other BY statement variable directives

Cynthia_sas — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 16:46:10 GMT

Hi:

ODS DOCUMENT has some automatic variables and I know that TAGSETS.EXCELXP has implemented some BY group support for #BYVAL/#BYVAR/#BYLINE, but as far as I know, it is only documented here in the TITLE statement: SAS(R) 9.4 Statements: Reference, Second Edition -- so your approach of using VVALUEX, etc might be the most flexible.

cynthia