looping through arguments in a macros in sas -

i have developed sas code has macro 2 arguments. macro looks this

%macro compare(country,attributes) 

the problem have 10 countries , example india, u.s.a, australia, pakistan etc , 15 attributes such language, area, currency, life_expec, malefemaleratio etc.

so have call macro 150 times.

%compare(india,language); %compare(india,area); %compare(india,currency); *  ; /* have same other attributes */ *   ; %compare(u.s.a,language) %compare(u.s.a,area) /* have same other countries */ *; *; *; 

is there way take take these attributes , country names array , loop through them same result? new sas. in advance helping me

i suggest 1. put country , attributes sas table 'country_attr', variable 'country' , 'attributes'. 2. call execute:

data _null_;  set country_attr;  call execute ('%compare('||country||','||attributes')');  run;