topic Re: download and exclude special format in SAS Programming

download and exclude special format

GeorgeSAS — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 22:36:56 GMT

Hello everyone,

I am going to download a whole library of formats but want to exclude one from those format. what should I do?

the name of the format i want to exclude from download is $badformat.

proc download incat=Lib1.formats outcat=Lib2.formats
    connectstatus=no;

  /*ToDo:  add some code here to exclude $badformat. */



run;

Thank you very much!

Re: download and exclude special format

Astounding — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 23:25:54 GMT

The EXCLUDE statement allows you to list those members you do not want to download:

http://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=connref&docsetTarget=n0o0vsabkqk59jn1wseldad5q4ax.htm&docsetVersion=9.4&locale=en

Re: download and exclude special format

GeorgeSAS — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 19:54:01 GMT

proc download incat=Lib1.formats outcat=Lib2.formats
    connectstatus=no;

  /*ToDo:  add some code here to exclude $badformat. */

exclude badformat;

run;

ERROR: Missing ENTRYTYPE specification for entry badformat.

Re: download and exclude special format

stackoverflow — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 23:27:36 GMT

proc download incat=Lib1.formats outcat=Lib2.formats
    connectstatus=no;

  /*ToDo:  add some code here to exclude $badformat. */

exclude badformat/ENTRYTYPE=etype;

run;

proc download incat=Lib1.formats outcat=Lib2.formats
    connectstatus=no;

  /*ToDo:  add some code here to exclude $badformat. */

exclude format_A format_B format_C/ENTRYTYPE=format;
exclude formatc_A formatc_B formatc_C/ENTRYTYPE=formatc;

run;

try this.

I add some changes, can exclude both format or formatc type ,need to write separately. see the new lines of codes

Re: download and exclude special format

Astounding — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 20:05:13 GMT

The way I read the documentation, SAS is asking for this:

exclude badformat / entrytype=format;

If that format can't be found, it's possible you would have to use:

exclude $badformat / entrytype=format;

I can't test it, but that looks like what I'm reading.

***** Looks like @stackoverflow got there first ... and is correct that you need the slash before entrytype=

I changed my examples to add the slash.