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SAS Certified Professional Prep Guide
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SAS Certified Professional Prep Guide

by SAS Institute
October 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
430 pages
19h 4m
English
SAS Institute
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Passing Information into a Macro Using Parameters

You have seen the basic form for a macro definition. Your macros will often contain macro variables. To make your macros more dynamic, you could use the %LET statement to update the values of the macro variables that are used within the macros. However, parameter lists in your macro definitions enable you to update the macro variables within your macro programs more conveniently. A parameter list is an optional part of the %MACRO statement that names one or more macro variables whose values you specify when you create or call the macro.

Macros That Include Positional Parameters

When you include positional parameters in a macro definition, a macro variable is automatically created for each ...
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