Self-Purging Macros?

Friday, 6 April, 2012

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TLDR; a sas macro that deletes itself from work.sasmacr? the entry lock says no. nuts.

unfortunately, this doesn't work:

%macro test;
proc catalog cat=work.sasmacr;
    delete test.macro;
run;
quit;
%mend;
%test;

the log

ERROR: Entry lock is not available for TEST.MACRO in catalog WORK.SASMACR, lock held by DMS Process.

nuts.