topic Re: Explanation for calling a macro program in another macro program in the same SAS enterprise proj in SAS Enterprise Guide

Explanation for calling a macro program in another macro program in the same SAS enterprise project

Gick — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 12:35:48 GMT

Hi,

I have a SAS project (.egp) containing several SAS programs (.sas) named: cal, Lau, pest.

In Cal, I created a macro program and I want to call it to use in my Lau macro program. How to do ?

Can someone explain to me please?

Thank you

Gick

Re: Explanation for calling a macro program in another macro program in the same SAS enterprise proj

yabwon — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 12:50:10 GMT

In in the Process Flow you link codes you can organise them in such way that "A" will be executed before "B".

You can do it by RMB click on a file and then select "Link to" option.

Then run that path to get "final object" (test dataset in this case). In future runs RMB click on that final icon and select "Run to selected item".

Re: Explanation for calling a macro program in another macro program in the same SAS enterprise proj

Shmuel — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 12:57:20 GMT

What do you mean by "create a macro program" ? Is Cal itself a macro program, starting with %macro <name>(...); and ending with %mend ? Or does it generate a macro program?

In first case you can just %include <path>/Cal.sas at the top of any program you want to use Cal macro program. The mcaro will be compiled at submission and used when called.

In second case you need to keep the generated macro progam as a <filename>.sas in a folder then use it as described above.