Solution: How you can conditionally execute SAS global statements

[LeonidBatkhan]

Everybody is familiar with SAS global statements, such as

• FILENAME statement
• LIBNAME statement
• OPTIONS statement
• TITLE statement
• FOOTNOTE statement
• X statement, etc.

They can be used in SAS open code, within SAS macros, as well as within DATA and PROC steps.

Global statements are not executable by definition, meaning they are not executed during individual iterations of the DATA step. However, they do "take effect", that is in essence "execute" at some point in a SAS program. To lift the veil of mystery about SAS global statements' habits I recently wrote a blog post

How to conditionally execute SAS global statements

Take a read and you will never be confused by the global statements' behavior again.

Happy programming,

Leonid 

[ChrisNZ]

I would title this thread "How to: Conditionally execute SAS global statements"

to carry the fact that this is not a question.

[LeonidBatkhan]

Hi ChrisNZ,

That is how the blog post is titled. As for the Community "announcement" title, there are two attributes which make it non-question: 1) no "?" at the end, and 2) "can" stands after "you", in a question it would've been in reverse 😀

[ChrisNZ]

More emphasis on the demonstration rather than question aspect can only be a good thing imho, but your call obviously, just a suggestion 🙂 

[LeonidBatkhan]

Hi ChrisNZ,

Per your advice, I modified the title to be "Solution: How you can conditionally execute SAS global statements".

Thank you,

Leonid