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Returns an indication of whether a macro variable is in local
scope to the DATA step during DATA step execution.
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argument
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can be one of the following items:
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the name of a macro variable within double quotation
marks but without an ampersand.
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the name of a DATA step character variable, specified
with no quotation marks, which contains a macro variable name.
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a character expression that constructs a macro
variable name.
The SYMLOCAL function searches the enclosing
local symbol tables for the indicated macro variable and returns 1 if the macro variable is found or 0 if
the macro variable is not found.
SYMLOCAL is fully documented in
SAS Macro Language: Reference.
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