Language Reference

RUN Statement

  • RUN <name> <(arguments)> ;

The RUN statement executes a user-defined module or invokes PROC IML’s built-in subroutines.

The arguments to the RUN statement are as follows:

name

is the name of a user-defined module or a built-in subroutine.

arguments

are arguments to the subroutine.

If you define a module that has the same name as a built-in subroutine, the RUN statement can be used to call the user-defined subroutine.

If a RUN statement cannot be resolved at resolution time, a warning appears. If the RUN statement is still unresolved when executed and a storage library is open at the time, an attempt is made to load a module from that storage. If no module is found, an error message is generated.

If you do not supply a module name, the RUN statement tries to run the module named MAIN.

The following example defines and runs a module: 

start MySum(y, x);
   y = sum(x);
finish;
run MySum(y, 1:5);
print y;

Figure 24.334: Run a User-Defined Module

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See Chapter 6 and the CALL statement
                for further details.