topic Re: PCFILES LIBNAME withe space in name in SAS Programming

PCFILES LIBNAME withe space in name

Ambulance — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 14:53:28 GMT

Like making a LIBNAME with PCFILES for directory whose name contain a space ?

Ex : TB_Rep PCFILES PATH="C:\T EMP\Toto.mdb" SERVER = %sysget(computername) ;

Re: PCFILES LIBNAME withe space in name

Peter_C — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 15:12:09 GMT

can you please clarify the context of that syntax?

Re: PCFILES LIBNAME withe space in name

Ambulance — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 15:25:18 GMT

Using SAS 9.3 64-bit to access the 32-bit MS Office files

But folder name contains a space and the line of code does not work with file whose name contains a space.

43802 - Installing SAS® 9.3 PC Files Server and using it to convert 32-bit Microsoft Office files to SAS® 64-bit files http://support.sas.com/kb/43/802.html

Re: PCFILES LIBNAME withe space in name

Tom — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 17:29:44 GMT

In WIndows if you want to reference a path with an embedded space you need to enclose it in quotes.

Since the SAS syntax requires quotes also the internal quotes need to be doubled.

LIBNAME TB_Rep PCFILES PATH="""C:\T EMP\Toto.mdb"""

SERVER = %sysget(computername)

;

You can use the QUOTE() function to make the necessary conversion for you.

LIBNAME TB_Rep PCFILES PATH=%sysfunc(quote("C:\T EMP\Toto.mdb"))

SERVER = %sysget(computername)

;

Re: PCFILES LIBNAME withe space in name

Ambulance — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 17:51:33 GMT

I tried your thing and I received this error mesage :

647 LIBNAME TB_Rep PCFILES PATH= %sysfunc(quote("C:\T EMP\Toto.mdb"))
648 SERVER = %sysget(computername);

ERROR: Unable to determine file type from PATH= option.

ERROR: Error in the LIBNAME statement

Re: PCFILES LIBNAME withe space in name

Ambulance — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 18:04:53 GMT

I found the solution :

TB_Rep PCFILES PATH=%sysfunc(quote(C:\T EMP\Toto.mdb)) SERVER = %sysget(computername)

Re: PCFILES LIBNAME withe space in name

Tom — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 18:21:05 GMT

So that is the same code that you started with. Check to make sure that you have not entered your code into something like Microsoft Office. That program has an extremely nasty habit of changing quotes into strange ASCII codes so that they look "pretty".

Re: PCFILES LIBNAME withe space in name

Tom — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 20:05:57 GMT

You can use the TYPE= option to force it to treat the file as either Excel or Access file.

TYPE= EXCEL | ACCESS

specifies the file type in the PATH= statement.

Note:Use TYPE= if the file identified in the PATH= statement does not have an .xls or .mdb file extension.

Re: PCFILES LIBNAME withe space in name

Ambulance — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 20:17:45 GMT

Perfect,it works great with option :

TYPE= EXCEL | ACCESS and %sysfunc(quote())

Tank you Tom