topic Keyword Colours in Macros in SAS Programming

Keyword Colours in Macros

piavar — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 07:49:54 GMT

Hi All,

Does anybody know if there is a statement or option to keep keywords colours whithin a macro?

Regards

Paolo

Re: Keyword Colours in Macros

RW9 — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 08:33:46 GMT

I don't think so. The reason being is that macro code isn't actually code until it has been parsed by the pre-processor. Simplest way is to write your code, then copy over to a macro and change for parameters.

Re: Keyword Colours in Macros

NickS1 — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 20:03:33 GMT

I recently inherited some code when I changed jobs.

There was a large macro as the main process. It had a rather annoying %macro _; %mend _; at the end of the %macro line.

It wasn't until I deleted them that I realised that all of the code within the macro had the keywords colour coded.

Reinstating them made the colours return!

e.g

%macro stuff(); %macro _; %mend _;

data thing2;

set thing1;

run;

%mend;

%macro stuff();

data thing2;

set thing1;

run;

%mend;

Does this help?