Analyse SAS programs

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By Gent999 on Thu Jun 05, 2008 3:10 am

Hi, friends! I have a program text for SAS base (macro instructions + data steps + procedures). What SAS tools I may use to parse it into data structures I could use to analyse the text programmatically? If you have experience in related questions, please, help me!

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By Maheshtalla on Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:23 am

Hi,

Can you please make clear about your requirement.

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By Jdfrost on Fri Aug 22, 2008 12:56 pm

This request is a bit hazy, but I think the requestor is looking for a tool that would deconstruct and document a SAS program automatically. Such tools may exist for newer programming languages such as C++ or Java, but I don't know of any for SAS.

I have tried writing some macros (in SAS) that do this, but they are very idiosyncratic and not worth sharing.

If anyone has heard of such a tool, please let us know!

Joshua

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