Roy,

I think you are looking for the following (see changes below):

PS: There is help in interactive sas, for instance, "help macro" that you can use for documentation. At many installations you can start interactive sas by typing sas on a command line,.

Note that I did not test the code and I did it off the top of my head.

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Roy Pardee <roy@u.arizona.edu> wrote in article <34E26A9C.5A39@u.arizona.edu>... > Greetings Gurus, > > I've got a made up dataset I need to print out in pieces & suspect > that a macro would do the job gracefully. Unfortunately, I don't have > the docs > for the macro facility & my guesses as to how it should work are not > panning out > for me. Could one of you kindly point out what I need to do here? > > SAS didn't like the following: >

%macro royprint; * to define the macro.; > %do %nacb = 0 to 1 ; > %do %EdBlock = 1 to 7 ; > %do %AgeBlock = 1 to 5 ; %do nacb = 0 %to 1; %do edblock=1 %to 7; %do ageblock =1 %to 5; * indentation is good practice. ; > proc print ; proc print data=roydata; * good practice; > var Fig1--FailMain ; > id scaled ; > where nacb = &nacb and edblock = &EdBlock and ageblock = &AgeBlock ; > title "NACB=&nacb, EdBlock=&EdBlock, and AgeBlock=&AgeBlock" ; run; * always good practice.; > %end ; > %end ; %end ; %mend royprint; * to end the definition;

%royprint; * to execute the macro.; run;

> > Specifically, SAS says: > > 160 %do %nacb = 0 to 1 ; > ERROR: The %DO statement is not valid in open code. > > Do I need to move the %do statements to the very beginning of the > program? > > Is the fact that I have dataset variables with the same names as macro > variables a problem?

Nope. > > Bonus question: is there some way I can apply a user-defined format to a > macro variable?

Yes - use the PUT function. > > A thousand thanks in advance! > > -Roy > > +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ > | Roy Pardee, J.D., M.A. > | | > | Psychology & Law Student | The difference between science > and | > | University of Arizona | advocacy is that scientists expose > their | > | | ideas to risk of > falsification. | > | (Writing from Seattle!) > | | > | roy@u.arizona.edu > | | > +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ >