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Statistical Programming in SAS
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Statistical Programming in SAS

by John Bailer
April 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
460 pages
14h 45m
English
SAS Institute
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Chapter 10: Macro Programming 357
10.3 Processing Macros
You talkinto me? You talkinto me? You talkinto me?” says Travis Bickle in the
film Taxi Driver.
The macro processor is the Travis Bickle of SAS. To understand why, look at how SAS
processes a program in the following short overview. If you want a more detailed
description, see Introduction to SAS Programs and Macro Processing at support.sas.com,
or Burlew (2006).
When program statements are submitted, they are sent to the input stack, which is an area
of computer memory. The word scanner processes these program statements by
converting them to tokens. Tokens are directed to an ...
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