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sas_
Fluorite | Level 6


I wnat to convert the local to gloabl and global to local macro variables
can any one help me with some examples

in the above i have tryed like this

%macro a;
%let loc=10;
%put &loc;
%mend;

%a;

%global &loc;

Tryed

%global loc;

%put &loc;

it should reove to 10 but it was not resloving

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Ksharp
Super User

LOCAL  --> GLOBAL

%macro a;
%global global_loc;

%let loc=10;
%let global_loc=&loc;
%mend;

%a

%put &global_loc;






Ksharp

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Ksharp
Super User

LOCAL  --> GLOBAL

%macro a;
%global global_loc;

%let loc=10;
%let global_loc=&loc;
%mend;

%a

%put &global_loc;






Ksharp

sas_
Fluorite | Level 6

small query is there any thing that we can convert global to local macros

Ksharp
Super User

Sure. You can't force global macro variable to be local, but you can pass the value of gloale to local.

%global global_loc;
%let global_loc=Merry_Christmas;


%macro a;
%let loc=&global_loc;
%put &loc;
%mend;

%a




Ksharp

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