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The %MACRO statement tells SAS that this is the beginning of the macro and the %MEND statement signals the end
of the macro.

After you define your macro, you need to invoke it when you want to use it. Do this by adding a percent
sign in front of the macro-name like this:

%macro-name;

Program: 10.4
Write a program in macro to create a pie chart graph for each region by using sashelp.class and create a
PDF file for this result.

Here sales_1 is MACRO_NAME. By using %macro you just start the MACRO program and by mentioning
%mend, here you end the program.
For getting the output you have to execute %sales_1 and go to the file path to see the generated PDF.

Types of macro program on the basis of arguments:

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