Blocks, Not Lines
Tuesday, 30 October, 2012
⨳ 1 minute read ⨳ 54 words ⨳ debug ⨳ sas ⨳ sas macro ⨳Debugging SAS macros can be irksome. But Paul D Sherman’s paper SAS/MACRO® NOTES: Lines and Columns in the Log certainly helps clarify what the SAS Log is refering to.
Unlike open code, where LINE refers to the actual line of source code, the macro “line” is actually a block of statements.