topic Re: Create Zip for all the xls files available in the directory in ODS and Base Reporting

Create Zip for all the xls files available in the directory

VikrantSawatkar — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 07:30:31 GMT

Hi,

I have, let's say, 10 xls files exported from sas with today's date in a particular directory. And I want to zip those files. I have exported those xls files using ods tagsets.ExcelXP and I am using SAS 9.2.

I have tried the below code.

%let subdir = C:\Report1;
filename dir "&subdir.*.xls ";

ods package(ProdOutput) open nopf;
ods package(ProdOutput)
add file="dir";
ods package(ProdOutput)
publish archive
properties
(archive_name=
"Report1 - Dt.&date1..zip"
archive_path="C:\Report1");
ods package(ProdOutput) close;

If the above approach is not correct, then could you let me know the correct way to do it?

Many thanks in advance.

Regards,

Vikrant

Re: Create Zip for all the xls files available in the directory

RW9 — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 09:01:04 GMT

So what doesn't work with that? I can't run it as there are dependancies I don't have. The logic looks ok, if need be check out one of the many examples, for instance:

http://support.sas.com/kb/45/256.html

And come back with exact questions.

Re: Create Zip for all the xls files available in the directory

Reeza — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 14:46:53 GMT

I don't know if SAS 9.2 had support for these features, that would be my biggest concern. Some are definitely new in SAS 9.3

Re: Create Zip for all the xls files available in the directory

VikrantSawatkar — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 17:58:35 GMT

Hi RW9,

Thank you for the link. I referred it and tweak the code mentioned in it a bit. Now I am able to zip the files