SAS Macro Programming Made Easy, Third Edition, 3rd Edition

Chapter 11 Building a Library of Utilities

Introduction

Writing a Macro Program to Behave Like a Function

Programming Routine Tasks

 

Introduction

Chapter 10 showed ways of saving your macro program code and compiled macro programs. With these tools, you can create and organize your own libraries of macro programs that you and your coworkers frequently use. This chapter introduces the concept of building your own library of macro programs that perform routine or frequent tasks.

Because your work requirements are very different from that of another reader, your library of utility macro programs is likely to be different from his or hers. As you read through the chapter, keep in mind the routine and commonly performed programming tasks that you ...