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This course covers macro quoting functions, macro storage, and macro techniques for advanced data access, table lookup operations, advanced parameter validation, and macro windows.
Experienced SAS macro programmers who want to learn advanced techniques
Learn how to
• Create hierarchical, menu-driven macro applications
• Exploit stored compiled and autocall macro facilities
• Exploit macro quoting functions
• Generate data-driven macro calls
• Perform table lookup operations
• Apply SAS or user-defined formats to macro variables
• Automatically convert data set variables to macro variables
• Search for all CSV, Excel, or Microsoft Access files in a directory and all subdirectories and automatically import each file, worksheet, or table into a SAS data set
• Search for all SAS programs in a directory and all subdirectories and automatically submit every program
• Exploit SAS I/O and external file functions
• Create your own macro functions
• Create macro functions that return the number of observations in a data set or a subset of a data set
• Create a macro function that validates whether a selected variable exists in a selected data set and returns the variable’s type
• Create custom windows and menus that interactively gather and validate user-supplied parameter values.
Module 1: Macro Storage
Module 2: Protecting Special Characters
Module 3: Reading SAS Data
Module 4: Reading External Data
Module 5: Table Lookup Techniques
Module 6: Validating User Input
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