topic Re: Create CSV file pops up window in SAS Programming

Create CSV file pops up window

mona4u — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 15:34:32 GMT

Hi,

I'm experiencing two issues when I create CSV file

1- this window pops up and I don't want that to happen

2-I don't need the table to be created on the SAS system

Re: Create CSV file pops up window

Reeza — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 15:42:49 GMT

1- this window pops up and I don't want that to happen

Check your preferences, under Results you can set it to do not show results as generated. This is likely why you see the popup.

2-I don't need the table to be created on the SAS system

not sure what that means.

Re: Create CSV file pops up window

Tom — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 15:52:24 GMT

How are running SAS? Are you using SAS Display Manger? Enterprise Guide? SAS/Studio? Something else?

What code (if any) did you run to create the CSV file?

Re: Create CSV file pops up window

mona4u — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 17:10:12 GMT

1- this window pops up and I don't want that to happen

Check your preferences, under Results you can set it to do not show results as generated. This is likely why you see the popup.

I don't know how to do that in the windowing environment.

2-I don't need the table to be created on the SAS system

The tables are created on the SAS system as result and I don't need that since I'm outputting the result to CSV file.

Re: Create CSV file pops up window

mona4u — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 17:16:26 GMT

I'm using SAS Windowing Environment.

This is my code;

ods csvall file="R:\LOCATION\Status Metrics_&date..csv";

ods csvall close;

Re: Create CSV file pops up window

mona4u — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 17:24:36 GMT

got it
Select Toolsthen selectOptionsthen selectPreferences

Re: Create CSV file pops up window

Tom — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 17:35:28 GMT

You can change your preferences to not automatically open ODS results.

Or you can not use ODS CSVALL to create the CSV file and instead just write it yourself with a data step. Since then SAS wouldn't consider it "results" it wouldn't pop-up that window. That way you could continue to have SAS automatically open your real results.

You will probably also get better performance and a smaller file.

Here is simple example for making a CSV file without header line.

data _null_;
  file "c:\downloads\class.csv" ;
  set sashelp.class ;
  put (_all_) (+0);
run;

With a little more work you can have the data step also add the header line.

https://github.com/sasutils/macros/blob/master/csv_vnext.sas