topic Re: macro help in SAS Programming

macro help

soujanyak — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 22:19:11 GMT

I created macro called main and end macro. and calling same macro, but I am getting below bolded error while I am running through autosys ( this error in autosys log )

%macro main / minoperator;

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%mend main;

2036 /*call the main macro*/
2037 %main;
2038
ERROR: Expected close parenthesis after macro function invocation not found.
WARNING: Missing %MEND statement for macro MAIN.

Re: macro help

ballardw — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 22:40:02 GMT

Show us the LOG where you compiled the macro definition.

You also want to turn on OPTIONS MPRINT; before diagnosing any problems with macros so the LOG will show details of the generated code.

The error about close parenthesis could be from something in the body of your macro and we have no clue where it might be.

The warning about no %mend for macro MAIN would make be start looking for mismatched quotes as well as parentheses or comments that may mean the %mend wasn't encountered by the macro compiler.

Re: macro help

soujanyak — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 12:52:09 GMT

Thank you very much, we were able to find the issue and now our job running successfull

Re: macro help

mkeintz — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 16:47:38 GMT

@soujanyak wrote:

Thank you very much, we were able to find the issue and now our job running successfull

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