How to create permanent macro in SAS Studio?

[Nietzsche]

Hi guys, I am doing lesson 6 of the Programming 1 course, here I have to create a macro that stores the file path to export destination folder.

however the macro disappears every time I reset my SAS studio session, is there a make the macro permanent?

[Tom · Accepted solution]

First thing.  That code is not creating a macro.  It is creating a macro variable (also called a symbol).  A macro is defined by the %MACRO statement.

The answer is NO.  There is no such thing.

But you can create an autoexec.sas file that runs every time you start a new SAS session.  So you could put code in there that creates the macro variable or does anything else you want to happen every time you start SAS.

[Nietzsche]

thank you, I will look into autoexec.sas and thanks for the clarification on the terminology.