Book description
Explains how to increase the modularity, flexibility, and maintainability of your SAS code using the SAS macro facility. Provides complete information about macro language elements, interfaces between the SAS macro facility and other parts of SAS software, and macro processing in general.
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- About This Book
- What’s New in the SAS 9.4 Macro Facility
- Recommended Reading
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Part 1: Understanding and Using the Macro Facility
- Chapter 1: Introduction to the Macro Facility
- Chapter 2: SAS Programs and Macro Processing
- Chapter 3: Macro Variables
- Chapter 4: Macro Processing
- Chapter 5: Scopes of Macro Variables
- Chapter 6: Macro Expressions
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Chapter 7: Macro Quoting
- Macro Quoting
- Deciding When to Use a Macro Quoting Function and Which Function to Use
- %STR and %NRSTR Functions
- %BQUOTE and %NRBQUOTE Functions
- Referring to Already Quoted Variables
- Deciding How Much Text to Mask with a Macro Quoting Function
- %SUPERQ Function
- Summary of Macro Quoting Functions and the Characters That They Mask
- Unquoting Text
- How Macro Quoting Works
- Other Functions That Perform Macro Quoting
- Chapter 8: Interfaces with the Macro Facility
- Chapter 9: Storing and Reusing Macros
- Chapter 10: Macro Facility Error Messages and Debugging
- Chapter 11: Writing Efficient and Portable Macros
- Chapter 12: Macro Language Elements
- Part 2: Macro Language Dictionary
- Part 3: Appendixes
- Glossary
- Index
- Footnotes
Product information
- Title: SAS 9.4 Macro Language, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2014
- Publisher(s): SAS Institute
- ISBN: 9781629593067
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