Hi ,
Could any one help me Out that how to use Proc sort in macros.
A macro that will sort a dataset?
%Macro sorter(dsn, var);
proc sort data=&dsn.;
by &var.;
run;
%mend;
%sorter(sample_dataset, age);
will sort sample_dataset by the variable age.
Good question to start with Murray.
Have seen a lot of people starting to learn SAS calling everything a "macro".
Not been aware of te datastep / procedures / sas-macro / scl , metadata and may other artifacts used ad code/programming tools.
Thank you murray
Could you explain me how it works, because i new to sas macros
SAS macros is a whole programming language, and teaching a such is not suitable in a forum.
I suggest that you spend some time with the documentation, and potentially read some papers (i.e. from SAS Global Forum), and potentially attend to some training (physical or online).
thank you
Macros allow you to automatically submit programs based on arbitrary requirements.
If I have to sort 100 datasets in the same way, to save time I would write the 'sorter' macro as above, and call it with reference to my 100 datasets, this saves a lot of copying and pasting, as the macro prossesor does that for us.
For a rounded education on macros I would reccomend the SAS Certification Prep Guide:: Advanced Programming for SAS 9, Third Edition. About a thir dof this book looks exclusively at the way macros work.
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