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.
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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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