Sunday, December 30, 2018

SAS meta organization

Work "organization" question thingy .... 
HOW do you organize things that you reuse????

WE have a huge sad macro directory with "lower" level macros, some of which I use CONSTANTLY. Sort, merge, ZCSV, READ_excel_sheet (new one, love this), ab_catfinal, etc etc 

AND IF you need the "format" for the macro, I typically put an example in the macro.

BUT .... there are a TON that are used much much much less often ... and .... I have no organization.  
I dont have a card catalog, I dont have a list ...
EXAMPLE - I need to read a massive zipped file into sas.
We have done this 1000s of times.  Pretty sure that there is a macro that I use that does this AS IS.

BUT WHAT I need is a better method of finding it than a global search of my *.SAS code ... LOLOL

I GUESS, ONCE I FIND WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR, I need to document what and where. OneNote or GoogleDocs ...

Thanks you helped a ton!!


PLUS PATTERNS
Patterns are not macros, but more like meta-macros. 
I need to create one of these and share it so that you see what I mean. Heh

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