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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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Storing Macro Definitions in External Files

The %INCLUDE Statement

One way to store macro programs permanently is to save them to an external file. You can then use the %INCLUDE statement to insert the statements that are stored in the external file into a program. If the external file contains a macro definition, the macro is compiled when the %INCLUDE statement is submitted. Then the macro can be called again later in the same program, or anytime later in the current SAS session.
Note: %INCLUDE is a global SAS statement, not a macro statement.
Syntax, %INCLUDE statement:
%INCLUDE file-specification </SOURCE2>;
file-specification
describes the location of the file that contains the SAS code to be inserted.
SOURCE2
causes the ...
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ISBN: 9781642954692