Macro functions enable you to manipulate text strings that SAS inserts in your code.When you submit a program, SAS executes the macro functions before the program compiles. To use a macro function, ...
The macro functions %SYSFUNC and %QSYSFUNC can call SAS language functions and functions written with SAS/TOOLKIT software to generate text in the macro facility. %SYSFUNC and %QSYSFUNC have one ...
The Qxxx functions are necessary because by default, macro functions return an unquoted result, even if the argument was masked by a macro quoting function. The %QSCAN, %QSUBSTR, %QUPCASE, and ...