How to view the code of macro catalog?

[Iramesh]

Hi All,

          Can any one help me out to view the code of macro catalog code.ie.,

         %macro test;

          proc print;

          run;

          %mend;

when submit the above code "test" will be created in work.sasmacr. Now i want to view the code of "Test".

Thanks in Advance

[BrunoMueller · Accepted solution]

Hi Iramesh

What exactly do you want to achieve? If you write a macro you do have the source code for it.

For compiled stored macros, you can use the %COPY statement if the developer did not use the SECURE option on the %MACRO statement

Bruno

[Iramesh]

Hi Bruno,

          Thank you very much....

Regards

Ramesh

[SASKiwi]

In SAS Display Manager you can use the SAS Explorer to list the members in a SAS catalog such as work.sasmacr and if you double click on a member in work.sasmacro it will show the the source code in a window.

If you use EG only this is not possible. In fact the SAS server list doesn't even show SAS catalogs. There is an add-in you can get to display the contents of SAS catalogs but not to show the compiled macro source code.