Sample 36360: How to determine whether a macro exist within a SAS session
This macro will return a yes or no depending on wheather a macro has been compiled within the current SAS session. This will only work for those macros that have been compiled to the WORK.SASMACR catalog.
Pass in the name of the macro (minus the percent sign) you are searching for.
%macro test(name);
%global val;
proc catalog cat=work.sasmacr;
contents out=new(keep=name);
run;
data _null_;
set new;
if upcase(name) = "%upcase(&name)" then do;
call symput('val','yes');
stop;
end;
else call symput('val','no');
run;
%mend test;
/* Check for the existence of the macro test */
%test(test)
%put Does test exist: &val;
Output from log
Does test exist: yes
Determines whether a macro has been compiled to the WORK.SASMACR catalog within the current SAS session.
| Date Modified: | 2009-06-26 15:00:03 |
| Date Created: | 2009-06-25 13:02:33 |
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