What's New in the SAS 9.3 Macro Language Facility
Overview
The Macro Language Facility has the following enhancements:
- new automatic macro variables that enable you to reduce the amount of text that is needed to perform common tasks
- new macro functions
- new macro statements
- new macro system options that enable you to define and redefine macros and to better control their execution
Automatic Macro Variables
- SYSADDRBITS
- contains the number of bits of an address.
- SYSENDIAN
- contains an indication of the byte order of the current session. The possible values are LITTLE or BIG.
- SYSNOBS
- contains the number of observations read from the last data set that was closed by the previous procedure or DATA step.
- SYSODSESCAPECHAR
- displays the ...
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