243-29: SAS Macro Programming for Beginners

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When you submit a standard S AS program, SAS compiles and then immediately executes it. But when you write macro code, there is an extra step. Before SAS can compile and execute your program, SAS must pass your macro statements to the macro processor which then “resolves” your macros generating standard SAS code.

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