Today's Workshop Article - SAS MACROS - Beyond Basics

The following article summarizes all the functionalities of SAS MACROS.

http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi24/Handson/p149-24.pdf

The following questions are answered here.

- do you know why %str function is important?

- what really happens when SAS macro language processing is done in SAS

- What would you know if you use %put _all_; and %put _user_; statements, (1) at the beginning of a sas program, inside a macro program, outside a macro program?

- why would you need %NRSTR function in a macro or in a %let statement?

- knowing how to use &&double and &&&triple

- difference between %SYSEVALF and %SYSFUNC

- using %SYMPUT % SYMGET

- %IF and %DO executions

- %RESOLVE and %EXECUTE purposes

See the article for more tutorial type information

www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi24/Handson/p149-24.pdf