PutMacros

While you can use %put _all_ ; to list macro variables to the SAS log, the list is somewhat hard to read and is not in any type of order.  The below %putmacros() macro reads the dictionary.macros table and outputs the contents in ascending macro variable name order.

The output below was created using %put _global_ ; while the table below was generated via the %putmacros() call.


GLOBAL SQLOBS 11
GLOBAL SQLOOPS 55
GLOBAL SYS_SQL_IP_ALL -1
GLOBAL SYS_SQL_IP_STMT
GLOBAL SQLXOBS 0
GLOBAL SQLRC 0
GLOBAL SEX1 F
GLOBAL SQLEXITCODE 0
GLOBAL SEX2 M
GLOBAL AVGWEIGHT1 90.11
GLOBAL AVGWEIGHT2 108.95

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proc sql noprint ;

  select           sex
                 , avg( weight )
    into           :sex1 - :sex99
                 , :avgweight1 - :avgweight99
from       sashelp.class
group by   sex ;
quit ;
%putmacros()



/****************************************************************
*     Program: putmacros.sas
*      Author: Tom Bellmer
*     Created: 26Jan2011
*     Purpose: writes a sorted list of macro variables
*       Usage: %putmacros( scope= ) ;
*       Notes: Scope value can be ALL, AUTOMATIC, GLOBAL or LOCAL
*    Modified: 
****************************************************************/
%macro putmacros( scope = GLOBAL ) ;
  %local whereclause ;
  %let scope = %upcase( &scope ) ;
  %if &scope = ALL %then %let whereclause = 1 = 1;
  %else %if &scope = LOCAL %then %let whereclause = scope not in ( 'AUTOMATIC', 'GLOBAL' ) ;
  %else %let whereclause = scope = "&scope" ;
  proc sql ;
    create table putmacrosdataset as
      select       name
                 , value
                 , scope length = 32
                 , offset
        from       dictionary.macros
        where      &whereclause
        order by   name 
                 , offset ;
  quit ;
  dm "viewtable putmacrosdataset view=table (label='Macro Variables')" viewtable  ;
%mend ;
/* EOF: putmacros.sas */
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