ESSENTIALS OF MACRO QUOTING FUNCTIONS IN SAS

SAS® macro language is a text processing facility. Everything including numeric values is treated as text in SAS macro language. It is also composed of special characters, such as, (comma), ; ( semi colon), + (plus) and others. When a macro code contains, for example, ; (semi colon) sign, macro processor sees it as the end of SAS or macro statement rather than text. This might yield unintended result when you do not mean to end the statement. Macro quoting functions come to rescue from this situation by treating it as text. This paper will introduce macro quoting functions with examples.