topic AUTOCALL and subdirectories in SAS Programming

AUTOCALL and subdirectories

emsmpa — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 10:49:52 GMT

Hi,

is it possible to have SAS macros in subdirectories of a directory added to SASAUTOS?

E.g.:

SASAUTOS ('/path/to/macrodir')

We want to call all macros that are saved in subdirectories, like '/path/to/macrodir/basic_macros/' or '/path/to/macrodir/specific_macros/' automatically without adding all subdirectories to the AUTOCALL facility.

Thanks in advance!

Re: AUTOCALL and subdirectories

SASKiwi — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 04:03:28 GMT

Unfortunately I don't think there is a simple answer for this.

You can use a FILEREF in SASAUTOS like SASAUTOS (myfileref) and this can point to multiple directories but then you have to define the fileref in a FILENAME statement that would require you to list all of the sub-directories anyway.

One possibility might be to pipe in a list of sub-directories via an operating system command and using the PIPE option on a FILENAME statement. It looks like you are using Unix and unfortunately I don't have access to a Unix environment to test this out. Hopefully someone else can.

Re: AUTOCALL and subdirectories

emsmpa — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:30:44 GMT

Thanks!