Macro rXDIR (from Fraktal SAS Programming)

What it does

This SAS Macro provides the function from XDIR in an interactive mode.

• The recursive use of macro invocation keeps the macro "alive" until no further user input is made.
• It might be of some interest to the novice user, how easy it is, to turn a simple "home-grew" function into an interactive tool.

Code executed	Function performed
%MACRO rxdir(xpath);	Start macro definition with name and positional parameter xpath
%GLOBAL rpath;	Declare macrovariable rpath as global
%LET xpath = ;	Empty macrovariable xpath
%WINDOW path	Start definition for macro window path
irow = 20 rows = 14 icolumn = 130 columns = 64	Set coordinates for macro window path
#3 @5 "Current Path: &RPATH."	Define 1st output line containing value from macrovariable rpath
#5 @5 'Enter path: ' xpath 40 attr = blink	Define 2nd output line and field attributes to read macrovariable xpath
;	End definition of macro window path
%DISPLAY path;	Invoke macro window path
%IF %LENGTH(&XPATH.) = 0 %THEN %GOTO leave;	Branch for condition "null value entered"
%LET rpath = &RPATH.&XPATH.\;	Append value from macrovariable xpath to macrovariable rpath
filename path pipe "dir /b ""&RPATH.""" lrecl = 256;	Create file reference of type pipe to read entries from directory named in rpath
%PUT ---&RPATH.---;	Output roughly formatted header containing value from rpath
data _NULL_;	Initiate datastep w/o creating a dataset
length entry $256;	Specify field length to read directory entries' names into
infile path length = lrecl;
input entry $varying256. lrecl;
put entry;
run;
filename path clear;
%RXDIR(&RPATH.)
%LEAVE:
%LET rpath = ;
%MEND rxdir;	END macro definition with name