(1) A special-purpose command language used to automate sequences within an application such as a spreadsheet or word processor. Macro languages often include programming controls (IF THEN ...

Although subsequent chapters go into far more detail on the various elements of the macro language, this section highlights some of the possibilities, with pointers ...

A macro language statement instructs the macro processor to perform an operation. It consists of a string of keywords, SAS names, and special characters and operators, and it ends in a semicolon. Some ...

(1) See keyboard macro processor and macro language. (2) The part of an assembler that converts the macro calls in the program to the actual subroutines for execution. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR ...