topic Re: SAS Studio %Macro Recognition in SAS Studio

SAS Studio %Macro Recognition

martasofiasousa — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 21:10:14 GMT

Hi!

I'm using SAS Studio from SAS University Edition through a VirtualBox and I'm trying to write a macro but it seems that the program doesn't recognize the statement. When I try to execute the code nothing happens, not even an error message. Does anyone know what can I do? Or if there is an option I need to activate to the program recognize the macro?

Thanks!

Re: SAS Studio %Macro Recognition

Reeza — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 21:22:37 GMT

You need to submit the full macro definition at once and it works fine. Run the following and see what happens.

%macro example_print(dsn=);

proc print data=&dsn(obs=5);
run;

%mend;

%example_print(dsn=sashelp.class);

UCLA introductory tutorial on macro variables and macros

https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/sas/seminars/sas-macros-introduction/

Tutorial on converting a working program to a macro

This method is pretty robust and helps prevent errors and makes it much easier to debug your code. Obviously biased, because I wrote it 🙂 https://github.com/statgeek/SAS-Tutorials/blob/master/Turning%20a%20program%20into%20a%20macro.md

Examples of common macro usage

https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Communities-Library/SAS-9-4-Macro-Language-Reference-Has-a-New-Appendix/ta-p/291716

Re: SAS Studio %Macro Recognition

Kurt_Bremser — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 21:23:52 GMT

Please post the code you run, using the "running man" button (eigth in the row above the posting window).