mf_existfunction.sas File Reference

Checks if a function exists. More...

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Detailed Description

Returns 1 if the function exists, else 0. Note that this function can be slow as it needs to open the sashelp.vfuncs table.

Usage:

%put %mf_existfunction(CAT);
%put %mf_existfunction(DOG);

Full credit to Bart for the vfunc pointer and the tidy approach for pure macro data set filtering. Check out his SAS Packages framework! Where you can find the same [function]( https://github.com/yabwon/SAS_PACKAGES/blob/main/packages/baseplus.md#functionexists-macro ).

Parameters

[in]

name

function name

Author

Allan Bowe

Definition in file mf_existfunction.sas.