How to create and use SAS macro functions
SAS' Leonid Batkhan differentiates between SAS macro and programming languages, defines two types of SAS macros and much more.
Tag: SAS macro
Finding your Dream Car with a little macro magic
Suppose you want a list of car manufacturers from the CARS dataset. Easy! Call the %CHARLIST macro from a %PUT statement, like this: The CHARLIST macro generates a list of unique values of a selected variable from a selected dataset. So does PROC FREQ. But, if you don't need statistics, the CHARLIST
Always save your code when creating a stored compiled macro
The stored compiled macro facility enables you to compile and save your macro definition in a permanent catalog in a library that you specify. The macro is compiled only once. When you call the macro in the current and subsequent SAS® sessions, SAS executes the compiled code from the macro