Audience

This course is designed for experienced SAS programmers who would like to use the SAS macro language.

Duration

2 or 3 days

Abstract

This course will cover all of the major facilities of the SAS macro system. This two or three day class is a mixture of lecture and extensive “hands‑on” exercises, including a case study example used to develop an actual macro system in the three day class.

Objectives

• Understand the relationship between the SAS macro system and the other components of SAS such as the DATA step and the SAS Display Manager
• Use automatic macro variables to capture and change system information
• Create and use your own macro variables for modifying code
• Design macros to make your SAS programming tasks easier
• Define local and global macro variables
• Interpret macro tracing and error messages and debug SAS macros
• Learn and use macro functions
• Understand SAS quoting and DATA step interface functions
• Apply learned skills to the case study example (3 day class only)

Outline

• SAS macro overview
• SAS macro variables
• SAS macros
• SAS macro referencing environments
• SAS macro programming statements
• Debugging macros
• Macro functions
• Data step interfaces
• Quoting functions
• Macro invocation