For SAS programmers or analysts who have to generalize their courses or increase programming potency, paintings chippie completely updates his hugely profitable moment version of Carpenter's whole advisor to the SAS Macro Language with an intensive number of new macro language innovations and examples.

Addressing the composition and operation of the SAS macro facility and the SAS macro language, this 3rd version deals approximately four hundred ready-to-use macros, macro services, and macro instruments that allow you to convert SAS code to macros, outline macro variables, and extra! clients with a simple realizing of Base SAS who're new to the SAS macro language will locate extra aspect, utilities, and references to extra studying possibilities; complicated macro language programmers who need assistance with data-driven macros and dynamic program improvement will locate drastically elevated remedy of those issues.

This revised and enlarged variation contains the subsequent themes:

• New and elevated advent to the macro language
• Functions, automated macro variables, and macro statements new to the macro language
• Expanded macro language instruments that interface with the working system
• Expanded data-driven methodologies used to construct dynamic applications
• Expanded dialogue of checklist processing, with 4 replacement ways presented
• Additional dossier and information administration examples
• Expanded dialogue of name EXECUTE and DOSUBL
• New dialogue of utilizing the macro language on distant servers
• Expanded dialogue and examples of macro quoting

Far past a reference handbook issued from an “ivory tower,” this e-book is pragmatic and example-driven: sure, you can find syntax examples; certain, the code is defined. however the concentration of this ebook is on genuine code used to unravel real-world company difficulties. actually, a whole appendix is devoted to directory the approximately 70 sessions of difficulties which are solved via courses coated during this version. dialogue of the examples elucidates the professionals and cons of the actual resolution and sometimes indicates replacement techniques. for that reason, this publication presents you either a compendium of reusable and adaptable code, and possibilities for deepening your figuring out and growing to be as a SAS programmer.