topic Re: SAS Macro %list_attrib in SAS Programming

SAS Macro %list_attrib

gphunt — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 18:05:39 GMT

I'm looking for a macro called %list_attrib which paper D13-2009 claims is in this community. The macro basically lists all the variables within a SAS dataset with their attributes in the form of an attrib statement. Neither I nor SAS TS can find it. Does anyone know where it might be?

Thanks.

Re: SAS Macro %list_attrib

Reeza — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 18:17:20 GMT

I don't see any reference to this site as the source in the paper, can you clarify where exactly it states that?

I found nothing super relevant except these which seem slight variations on what you need.

https://github.com/scottbass/SAS/blob/master/Macro/attrib.sas

http://www.datasavantconsulting.com/roland/Spectre/utilmacros/dsattrib.sas

@gphunt wrote:

I'm looking for a macro called %list_attrib which paper D13-2009 claims is in this community. The macro basically lists all the variables within a SAS dataset with their attributes in the form of an attrib statement. Neither I nor SAS TS can find it. Does anyone know where it might be?

Thanks.

Re: SAS Macro %list_attrib

gphunt — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 18:23:50 GMT

Thanks, Reeza. This will get me what I'm looking for.

Best,

Gary

Re: SAS Macro %list_attrib

ChrisNZ — Sat, 26 Jun 2021 05:25:03 GMT

Note that if you use that attrib statement to create a data set with the same structure, you can simply run the line:

data NEW:
  if 0 then set OLD;
run;

to copy the variables (and their attributes) from OLD to NEW.