Preface

How Can This Book Help You Understand the SAS Macro Facility?

This book is for beginning through experienced users of SAS who want to learn about SAS macro programming. It assumes that you have beginning to intermediate experience writing SAS language programs, and it does not review SAS language and SAS programming concepts.

The focus of this book is to make the macro facility a tool you can use in your programming. It is less inclusive and spends less time on reference details than SAS Macro Language: Reference.

The technical aspects of macro processing are described in this book. While understanding the technical aspects is not necessary to begin to reap the benefits of the SAS macro facility, this knowledge might help you more wisely ...

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