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Proc stream: %include from folder

Jorn — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 16:16:58 GMT

Hello,

I have started creating a dynamics website using Stored processes and Proc stream.

I am trying to load a .sas stored process via the %include statement. Using the following code, everything works just fine when the sas file is in the root directory:

label;
%include MyProcess;

To organize the .sas files, I want to move them to sub folders. However I can't figure out how to specify this subfolder. I tried the following, but they don't work

%include SubFolder/MyProcess;

%include "SubFolder/MyProcess";

%include 'SubFolder/MyProcess';

%include "/SubFolder/MyProcess";

%include '/SubFolder/MyProcess';

%include SubFolde\MyProcess;

%include "SubFolder\MyProcess";

%include 'SubFolder\MyProcess';

%include "\SubFolder\MyProcess";

%include '\SubFolder\MyProcess';

I am not allowed to use hardcoded paths, so the documentation solution is not useable.

Base SAS(R) 9.4 Procedures Guide, Third Edition

Thanks for any suggestions in advance.

Re: Proc stream: %include from folder

FriedEgg — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 14:54:47 GMT

You need to use the relative path.

Re: Proc stream: %include from folder

Tom — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 15:29:07 GMT

You can use relative paths.

So to get a file from a sub-folder you could use

%inc "subfolder/myfile.sas";

(Note that SAS is happy to convert / to \ if you are running on Windows instead of Unix. Or vice versa.)

But they will be relative to the current working directory and not necessarily to the directory where the source code file is located.

In that case you might want to assign a fileref to the top level directory.

FILENAME CODELIB '/myproject/folder/';

%inc codelib("subfolder/myfile.sas");

Re: Proc stream: %include from folder

Jorn — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 08:15:40 GMT

Thanks for the help.

Using FILENAME CODELIB '/myproject/folder/'; is even better since I can set a completely new working directory.