SAS® Macro Programming Made Easy, Second Edition

Appendix B. Reserved Words in the Macro Facility

Table B.1 lists words that are reserved for use by the macro facility.

Table B.1. Reserved words in the macro facility

ABEND	DO	LET	QSYSFUNC	SYSEXEC
ABORT	EDIT	LIST	QUPCASE	SYSFUNC
ACT	ELSE	LISTM	RESOLVE	SYSGET
ACTIVATE	END	LOCAL	RETURN	SYSRPUT
BQUOTE	EVAL	MACRO	RUN	THEN
BY	FILE	MEND	SAVE	TO
CLEAR	GLOBAL	METASYM	SCAN	TSO
CLOSE	GO	NRBQUOTE	STOP	UNQUOTE
CMS	GOTO	NRQUOTE	STR	UNSTR
COMANDR	IF	NRSTR	SUBSTR	UNTIL
COPY	INC	ON	SUPERQ	UPCASE
DEACT	INCLUDE	OPEN	SYMDEL	WHILE
DEL	INDEX	PAUSE	SYMEXIST	WINDOW
DELETE	INFILE	PUT	SYMGLOBL
DISPLAY	INPUT	QSCAN	SYMLOCAL
DMIDSPLY	KEYDEF[*]	QSUBSTR	SYSCALL
DMISPLIT	LENGTH	QUOTE	SYSEVALF
[*] Note that KEYDEF was made obsolete in SAS 8.2, but it is still recognized as a reserved word.

Do not use a reserved word to name a macro program, a macro variable, ...