topic Re: sysfunc alias in SAS Programming

sysfunc alias

TimurShangareev — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 00:56:17 GMT

Is there are some alias for %sysfunc() key word? Somethin like %s? Sysfunc to long to write and read.

Re: sysfunc alias

quickbluefish — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 01:55:04 GMT

Well, you could make one, e.g.,

%macro s;
	%sysfunc
%mend;

** testing... ;
%let chk=one two three four;

%let nc=%s(countW(&chk,' '));

%put &=nc;

...but if you're using %sysfunc so much that you need a shortcut for it, there might be better ways to do things.

Re: sysfunc alias

PaigeMiller — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 13:13:18 GMT

In most (all?) SAS interfaces that I know of you can create an abbreviation, so if you type the abbreviation and press ENTER, whatever text you designated to go with that abbreviation will be inserted. So for example, I have the abbreviation ohc (just those three letters) and when I type ohc and press ENTER the text ods html close; appears in my code.

So you could create the abbreviation %sf, for example.

You can create abbreviation/alias for any code you want.