Macro bugs

nikolay_erney — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:51:14 GMT

What's wrong?

%macro bugs;
data person;
   infile datalines delimiter=',';
   input name $ dept $;
   datalines;
John,Sales
Mary,Acctng
;
run;
%mend;

%bugs;

1 The SAS System 17:16 Wednesday, September 26, 2012

1          ;*';*";*/;quit;run;
2          OPTIONS PAGENO=MIN;
3          %_eg_hidenotesandsource;
17
18         %macro bugs;
19         data person;
20            infile datalines delimiter=',';
21            input name $ dept $;
22            datalines;
23         John,Sales
24         Mary,Acctng
25         ;
26         run;
27         %mend;
28
29         %bugs;

ERROR: The macro BUGS generated CARDS (data lines) for the DATA step, which could cause incorrect results. The DATA step and the
       macro will stop executing.
NOTE: The data set WORK.PERSON has 0 observations and 2 variables.
NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):
      real time           0.00 seconds
      cpu time            0.01 seconds

ERROR: The macro BUGS will stop executing.
30
31         %_eg_hidenotesandsource;
43
44
45         QUIT; RUN;
46

But "

data person;

infile datalines delimiter=',';

input name $ dept $;

datalines;

John,Sales

Mary,Acctng

;

run;

is correct!

Re: Macro bugs

Doc_Duke — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:54:52 GMT

This is working as intended. Macros are compiled before the data step is run so they can't have DATALINES statements and data.

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