utility macro and standard maco

[lc7033907]

Hello all,

I came across utility macros and standard macros when reading pharmaceutical papers. But I never heard of them before. Any share is welcome. Thanks.

[Reeza]

Those are user defined terms, so they can mean whatever you want them to....the usage and terms will vary from company to company.

My guesses would be:

Utility macro's are likely a touch more generic, e.g add commas between macro variable lists, or retrieve information on a specific file

Standard macros, would be macros that you use to do accomplish some sort of requirements but is usually more complex and has multiple steps, e.g A reporting macro to prepare financial end of month statements.

And someone else can interpret those entirely differently.

[lc7033907]

@Reeza Thanks  for your sharing. I searched them online several times, but never got specific definitions. Maybe the reason is what you explained. Thanks a lot.

[Tom]

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@lc7033907 wrote:

Hello all,

I came across utility macros and standard macros when reading pharmaceutical papers. But I never heard of them before. Any share is welcome. Thanks.

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In pharmaceutical area they probably a distinguishing between something that is of generic utility for working with SAS data of any type and specific macros that produce company standard reports.  So you might have a "standard" macro for producing a summary of adverse event report that calls a "utility" macro to produce the title statements.