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Hands-On SAS for Data Analysis

You're reading from   Hands-On SAS for Data Analysis A practical guide to performing effective queries, data visualization, and reporting techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788839822
Length 346 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Harish Gulati Harish Gulati
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: SAS Basics FREE CHAPTER
2. Introduction to SAS Programming 3. Data Manipulation and Transformation 4. Section 2: Merging, Optimizing, and Descriptive Statistics
5. Combining, Indexing, Encryption, and Compression Techniques Simplified 6. Power of Statistics, Reporting, Transforming Procedures, and Functions 7. Section 3: Advanced Programming
8. Advanced Programming Techniques - SAS Macros 9. Powerful Functions, Options, and Automatic Variables Simplified 10. Section 4: SQL in SAS
11. Advanced Programming Techniques Using PROC SQL 12. Deep Dive into PROC SQL 13. Section 5: Data Visualization and Reporting
14. Data Visualization 15. Reporting and Output Delivery System 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Macro definition processing

Having gained a bit more knowledge about macros and their debugging, let's understand the resolution process of macro definition just as we did for macro variables earlier in this chapter.

The general syntax of the macro definition is as follows:

%macro macroname;
set of code statements;
….
%mend macroname;

As we saw earlier in the example of the DEMO macro definition we don't need to specify the macro definition name in the %mend statement. We will modify our current macro definition by adding a sorting option and call this new definition DEMO_SORT. While we have not included the macro definition name with the %mend closing statement, it is always a good coding habit to do so. As a coder, when you have nested macro definitions, having the macro definition name with %mend will help you keep track of the start and end of each macro definition...

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