topic Re: File creation date in SAS Programming

File creation date

Aurimas — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 13:55:52 GMT

Hello,

I am using sassuport code and I am expecting to get information about external file creation date. Unfortunately it returns other information about file.

sassupor code:

data info;
  length infoname infoval $60;
  drop rc fid infonum i close; 
  rc=filename("abc","/data6/tmp.csv"); 
  fid=fopen("abc"); 
  infonum=foptnum(fid); 
   do i=1 to 10; 
     infoname=foptname(fid,i); 
     infoval=finfo(fid,infoname); 
     output; 
   end; 
  close=fclose(fid); 
run;

I know It works fine on SAS 9.2, but I realy need any solution on 9.1.3. There are any other way to get file creation date and time?

Re: File creation date

art297 — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 14:10:36 GMT

Take a look at:

Dynamically determine the creation date and last modified date for an external file | SAS

Re: File creation date

ballardw — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 14:30:31 GMT

You may want

do i =1 to infonum;

in case the element you want doesn't appear in the first 10 items reported by the OS.

Re: File creation date

art297 — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 15:29:31 GMT

The issue isn't the value of infonum but, rather, the limited amount of information provided by SAS pre 9.2. The page I pointed to shows how to obtain the desired information using a pipe.

Re: File creation date

data_null__ — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 16:01:18 GMT

According to what I understand Creation time is not stored on UNIX system.