Macro XSET (from Fraktal SAS Programming)
Version vom 7. August 2014, 09:22 Uhr von Wolf-Dieter Batz (Diskussion | Beiträge)
This SAS Macro transfers the environment from the particular operating system to SAS Macro variables.
- Characters "not appreciated" by SAS are removed from variable values.
- If a specific variable name is supplied, this will be the only one transferred.
Code executed | Function performed |
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Start Macro definition with name and positional parameter xvar |
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Open source for text data of type pipe pointing to OS command |
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Start datastep run group |
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Declare variables xvar and xval by length in bytes |
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Utilize data stream from data source path |
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Define structure of data stream path with variables xvar and xval |
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Remove unwanted characters from variable xvar |
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Specify condition on macro parameter xvar for using code segment |
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Conditionally executed code |
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End condition on macro parameter xvar |
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Transfer variable values to symbol table |
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End data step run group |
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Close source for text data |
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End Macro definition with name |