The EVALUATE command parses the Groovy statement that is provided in the quoted string into a groovy.lang.Script object and calls the Run method on the Script. If one of the LOAD, PARSEONLY, or NORUN options is present, then this command parses the Groovy statement into a Class object but does not run it. Any classes that are defined by the Groovy code are then available for use by PROC GROOVY statements or by Java DATA Step Objects.

EVAL is an alias for the EVALUATE command.