Date:         Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:45:26 +0200
Reply-To:     Jim Groeneveld <J.Groeneveld@ITGROUPS.COM>
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From:         Jim Groeneveld <J.Groeneveld@ITGROUPS.COM>
Subject:      Re: Macro: delayed resolution ?
Comments: To: "Richard A. DeVenezia" <radevenz@IX.NETCOM.COM>
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Hi Richard,

I do not understand why you would do that, but you could experiment with
(un)quoting functions. Quote the title def in your macro and unquote
(resolve) later.

Regards - Jim.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard A. DeVenezia [SMTP:radevenz@IX.NETCOM.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 6:12 AM
> To:   SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject:      Macro: delayed resolution ?
>
> I'm drawing a blank
>
> suppose a title is constructed as follows
>
> Diagram 1.[level].[sub-level] --- [text]
>
> I could have a macro (that uses global macro variables)
>
> %macro title1;
> title1 "Diagram 1.&level..&sublevel. --- &text.";
> %mend;
>
> and getting different titles using
> %let level=1;
> %let sublevel=1;
> %let text=foo;
> ...
> %title1;
> ...
> %let sublevel=2;
> %let text=bar;
> %title1;
> ...
>
> I am wondering is there any %let that would let me instead resolve title1,
> a macro variable, that in turn would resolve pieces of it ? (Some sort of
> delayed resolution ?)
>
> %let title1 = <something that would let me have my 'templated' title,
> without defining a macro>
>
> %let level=1;
> %let sublevel=1;
> %let text=foo;
> ...
> &title1;
> ...
> %let sublevel=2;
> %let text=bar;
> &title1;
> ...
>
> --
> Richard A. DeVenezia
> Need long HTML Titles and Footnotes ?
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