SAS 9.4 Macro Language, 5th Edition

Appendix 1

Reserved Words in the Macro

Facility

Macro Facility Word Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Reserved Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Macro Facility Word Rules

The following rules apply to the macro facility.

• Do not use a reserved word as the name of a macro, a macro variable, or a macro

label. Reserved words include words reserved by both the macro facility and the

operating environment. When a macro name is a macro facility reserved word, the

macro processor issues a warning, and the macro is neither compiled nor available

for execution. The macro facility reserves the words listed under “Reserved Words”

on page 389 for internal use.

• Do not prefix the name of a macro language element with SYS because SAS

reserves the SYS prefix for the names of macro language elements supplied with

SAS software.

• Do not prefix macro variables names with SYS, AF, or FSP in order to avoid macro

name conflicts.

Reserved Words

The following is a list of reserved words for the macro facility.

ABEND GO NRBQUOTE STR

ABORT GOTO NRQUOTE SUBSTR

ACT IF NRSTR SUPERQ

ACTIVATE INC ON SYMDEL

BQUOTE INCLUDE OPEN SYMGLOBL

BY INDEX PAUSE SYMLOCAL

CLEAR INFILE PUT SYMEXIST

CLOSE INPUT QKCMPRES SYSCALL

CMS KCMPRES QKLEFT SYSEVALF

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COMANDR KINDEX QKSCAN SYSEXEC

COPY KLEFT QKSUBSTR SYSFUNC

DEACT KLENGTH QKTRIM SYSGET

DEL KSCAN QKUPCASE SYSRPUT

DELETE KSUBSTR QSCAN THEN

DISPLAY KTRIM QSUBSTR TO

DMIDSPLY KUPCASE QSYSFUNC TSO

DMISPLIT LENGTH QUOTE UNQUOTE

DO LET QUPCASE UNSTR

EDIT LIST RESOLVE UNTIL

ELSE LISTM RETURN UPCASE

END LOCAL RUN WHILE

EVAL MACRO SAVE WINDOW

FILE MEND SCAN

GLOBAL METASYM STOP

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