Date:         Thu, 12 Feb 1998 16:53:36 GMT
Reply-To:     Rex Chamberlain <chambreNOSPAM@MAIL.NORTHGRUM.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Rex Chamberlain <chambreNOSPAM@MAIL.NORTHGRUM.COM>
Organization: Northrop Grumman Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
Subject:      Re: Newbie macro question

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.
 
Rex
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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
>
>
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