The DOSUB and DOSUBL functions enable the immediate execution of SAS^® code after a text string is passed. Macro variables that are created or updated during the execution of the submitted code are exported back to the calling environment. When this problem occurs, any macro variables that are created or revised during the execution of submitted code are not being exported back to the calling environment.

The example code below illustrates the problem:

The variable TEMP should contain the value of 100, but it contains a missing value instead.

The following example code circumvents the problem for the code above:

In this case, the workaround is successful because the macro %TEST contains only macro statements. If the macro contained statements other than macro statements, the RESOLVE function would not work correctly.

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