topic Creating Macro Variable to Export Files in SAS Programming

topic Creating Macro Variable to Export Files in SAS Programming https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Creating-Macro-Variable-to-Export-Files/m-p/590242#M168891 <P>I'm trying to do this but I don't have a file named libname.sas in my EPG194 folder.  Do you need that file to proceed?</P><P> </P><P>Create a macro variable to store a location for output files.</P><OL><LI>In your<SPAN> </SPAN><STRONG>EPG194<SPAN> </SPAN></STRONG>folder, open<STRONG><SPAN> </SPAN>libname.sas</STRONG>.</LI><LI>Create a macro variable named<SPAN> </SPAN><STRONG>outpath<SPAN> </SPAN></STRONG>that stores the filepath to your<SPAN> </SPAN><STRONG>EPG194/output</STRONG><SPAN> </SPAN>folder: %let outpath=filepath-to-output-folder;</LI><LI>Run the code.</LI><LI>Check the log to be sure there are no errors, then save and close the program.</LI></OL> Fri, 20 Sep 2019 01:27:11 GMT chriswalsh 2019-09-20T01:27:11Z Creating Macro Variable to Export Files https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Creating-Macro-Variable-to-Export-Files/m-p/590242#M168891 <P>I'm trying to do this but I don't have a file named libname.sas in my EPG194 folder.  Do you need that file to proceed?</P><P> </P><P>Create a macro variable to store a location for output files.</P><OL><LI>In your<SPAN> </SPAN><STRONG>EPG194<SPAN> </SPAN></STRONG>folder, open<STRONG><SPAN> </SPAN>libname.sas</STRONG>.</LI><LI>Create a macro variable named<SPAN> </SPAN><STRONG>outpath<SPAN> </SPAN></STRONG>that stores the filepath to your<SPAN> </SPAN><STRONG>EPG194/output</STRONG><SPAN> </SPAN>folder: %let outpath=filepath-to-output-folder;</LI><LI>Run the code.</LI><LI>Check the log to be sure there are no errors, then save and close the program.</LI></OL> Fri, 20 Sep 2019 01:27:11 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Creating-Macro-Variable-to-Export-Files/m-p/590242#M168891 chriswalsh 2019-09-20T01:27:11Z Re: Creating Macro Variable to Export Files https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Creating-Macro-Variable-to-Export-Files/m-p/590329#M168936 <a href="https://communities.sas.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/152590">@PremS</a> wrote: LIBNAME.SAS was a program with code you wrote in Lesson 2: Accessing Data Through Libraries. <BR /><BR />For more information see: <A href="https://communities.sas.com/t5/Programming-1-and-2/Recreate-PG1-library-by-libname-sas/m-p/527779#M182" target="_blank">https://communities.sas.com/t5/Programming-1-and-2/Recreate-PG1-library-by-libname-sas/m-p/527779#M182</A> Fri, 20 Sep 2019 11:17:03 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Creating-Macro-Variable-to-Export-Files/m-p/590329#M168936 JosvanderVelden 2019-09-20T11:17:03Z