SAS 9.4 Macro Language: Reference, Fourth Edition, 4th Edition

troubleshooting macros 121

unresolved macros 126

warning messages and 120

defining macros 5, 37

delete macro variable

warning message 422

delimiters 4

delimiting macro variable names within

text 32

for IN operator 358

period as 9

delta character 97

DES= option

error message 402

directories

as autocall libraries 115

double quotation marks 5

dummy macro

error message 398

dummy macros 39, 126

E

eaual sign

error message 390

efficient macros

See macros, efficient

encoding

for SAS sessions 205

ENCODING= system option

warning message 424

error conditions

%SYSRC mnemonics for 185

error messages 122, 381

text of last message generated in log

208

error return codes 207

error types 120

errors

debugging and 120

evaluation functions 160

executing compiled macros 40

execution errors 120

execution functions 82

execution, tracing flow of 134

existence of data sets 280

existence of macro variables 245, 272

exits

providing in a large macro 310

expression

error message 391

expressions

See also macro expressions

generating indirect macro variable

references with 33

troubleshooting evaluation problems

133

external files

naming for autocall facility 154

routing MPRINT output to 358, 366

storing MPRINT output in 136

F

fields overlapped

warning message 419

FILENAME statement

return code from 209

filerefs

limiting to eight characters 270

verifying 192

floating-point evaluation 275

floating-point operands

evaluating 75

floating-point values

comparing in logical expressions 76

flow of execution, tracing 134

forcing local macro variables 59

functions

See also macro functions

See also macro quoting functions

assigning results to macro variables 144

executing 277

for use with %SYSFUNC function 427

in DATA step and macro facility 106

portable 148

user-written 277

G

global macro variables 5, 22, 47, 48

creating 61, 308

creating in macro definitions 309

creating, based on value of local

variables 63

indicating whether macro variables are

global 250

returning values as numeric 249

with same name as a local variable 318

global symbol table 48

deleting variables from 235, 330

graphics device 203

group name

error message 399

H

hexadecimal character constants 3

hexadecimal values 3

host name 210

Index 445