Date:         Thu, 18 Nov 1999 12:29:25 -0800
Reply-To:     "Berryhill, Tim" <TWB2@PGE.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Berryhill, Tim" <TWB2@PGE.COM>
Subject:      Re: include macro question
Comments: To: Kyle Dane <kyledane@MY-DEJA.COM>
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Two solutions come to mind.  Each makes it difficult to use #1 by itself.

First, you could change #1 to a macro, so that #2 can specify parameter
values during the call.

Second, you could write #1 referencing macro variables (but with no other
macro syntax).  Then you could initialize the macro variables with %let or
CALL SYMPUT statements in #2 before calling #1.  This might make it easier
to call #1 without #2 if you wanted to do that.

> ----------
> From:         Kyle Dane[SMTP:kyledane@MY-DEJA.COM]
> Reply To:     Kyle Dane
> Sent:         Thursday, November 18, 1999 11:07 AM
> To:   SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject:      include macro question
>
> I'm interested in a solution to the following problem.  I know I can
> simply copy the code from one SAS program to another, but I foresee this
> as something I'll want to do regularly in the future so bear with me.
>
> I have an existing program (program #1) that I want to use within
> another program (#2).  I understand that I can call #1 from #2 with the
> macro command %include '<#1>'.
>
> But #1 has several proc and data steps, so I want to pass the arguments
> <dataset> and <variable> into #1 from #2, so that statements such as
> these will complete themselves properly:
>
> data <dataset>;
>   set <dataset>;
>   var1=<variable>+1;
>
> Thanks in advance for anyone who can give me a solution.
> --
> Kyle Dane
> Programmer/Analyst
> UCSF Division of Geriatrics
> kdane@medicine.ucsf.edu
>
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