Date:         Fri, 1 Dec 2006 10:20:57 -0500
Reply-To:     Jake Bee <johbee@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Jake Bee <johbee@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: macros migrated form mainframe to unix
Comments: To: Andre <andrzej_ka@wp.pl>
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Migration to UNIX can give you problems, you may lose or acquire unseen
characters such as crtl-z.  I think you want the percents back.  In my
migrations to UNIX I never lost the %, not sure how that happened for your
migration, but you will need them,  I would try another migration
route/method, rather than try to figure out where all of the %'s should be.

On 12/1/06, Andre <andrzej_ka@wp.pl> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have .sas program recently migrated from mainframe machine to unix
> and some part of the code came to my attention ....there is no %
> characters before IF ..ELSE ..THEN DO.. END statements
> I know % character is not used in SCL macro, but I do not know if it is
> correct to omit % in .sas macro? ...
> There is no errors when running that program.
> Is IF .. ELSE ..  END treated as local condition and is totally correct
> in a macro?
>
> regards
> Andre
>
> %MACRO UTA;
> .
> .
> .
>
> %IF &INDICA = 1 %THEN %DO;
>
>      DATA TASSI_PAESE;
>
>      RETAIN M1 31  M2 28  M3 31  M4 30  M5 31  M6 30
>
>             M7 31  M8 31  M9 30 M10 31 M11 30 M12 31;
>
>      ARRAY MESI(12) M1-M12;
>
>      SET TASSI_PAESE;
>
>      DURATA=0;
>
>      IF TIP0='Y' THEN DURATA=DURATA+365*DUR0;
>
>      ELSE IF TIP0='M' THEN DO;
>
>         MCORR=&IMLM;
>
>         DO II=1 TO DUR0;
>
>            DURATA=DURATA+MESI(MCORR);
>
>            MCORR=MCORR+1;
>
>            IF MCORR GT 12 THEN MCORR=MCORR-12;
>
>         END;
>
>      END;
>
>   %END;
>
> .
> .
> .
> %MEND UTA;
>