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Rick Aster: Professional SAS Programming Secrets: Contents

Chapter 16
Program 16d
Localized text items

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  Professional SAS Programming Secrets
  Program 16d
  Localized text items
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%* Select locale and language *;
%LET LOCALE = %SYSFUNC(getpxlocale());
%LET LANGUAGE = %SYSFUNC(getpxlanguage());
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  Localize all text items. Create lookup table and macro variables.
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data work.localtextitem (keep=item text index=(item));
   merge app.textitem (where=(loc is missing))
       app.textitem (where=(loc = "&LANGUAGE."))
       app.textitem (where=(loc = "&LOCALE."));
   by item;
   call symputx('LABEL_' || item, text);   
run;