topic Re: NOTE: In a call to the FEXIST routine, the fileref '~/practice_exer/Mth_Rep' exceeds 8 character in SAS Programming

NOTE: In a call to the FEXIST routine, the fileref '~/practice_exer/Mth_Rep' exceeds 8 characters, a

pambardar — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 19:39:17 GMT

I am getting a note in the log

"NOTE: In a call to the FEXIST routine, the fileref '~/practice_exer/Mth_Rep' exceeds 8 characters, and will be truncated."

when I run the below macro

%cr_root_sub_dir(maindir='~/practice_exer/Mth_Rep',subdir='APR2016');

The macro code is :

%macro cr_root_sub_dir(maindir,subdir);
%put _local_;
%if &maindir = %then
%do;
%put 'Root directory is blank';
%goto exit;
%end;
%else
%do;
%if %sysfunc(fexist(&maindir)) %then
%put 'Directory &maindir Already Exists';
%else
%do;
%let newdir = %sysfunc(dcreate(&maindir,'~'));
%let newsubdir = %sysfunc(dcreate(&subdir,&maindir));
%end;
%end;
%exit:;
%mend cr_root_sub_dir;

Re: NOTE: In a call to the FEXIST routine, the fileref '~/practice_exer/Mth_Rep' exceeds 8 character

jklaverstijn — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 19:49:43 GMT

fexist() takes a fileref as argument. What you provieded was a filename. Assign a fileref using filename statement or use filexist() instead of fexist().

Regards,

- Jan.

Re: NOTE: In a call to the FEXIST routine, the fileref '~/practice_exer/Mth_Rep' exceeds 8 character

jklaverstijn — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 19:53:11 GMT

I meant FILEEXiST() of course. Two e's.

Re: NOTE: In a call to the FEXIST routine, the fileref '~/practice_exer/Mth_Rep' exceeds 8 character

jklaverstijn — Sat, 09 Apr 2016 11:11:05 GMT

@pambardar I hope this worked for you. In any case please let me know and please consider accepting my solution.

- Jan.

Re: NOTE: In a call to the FEXIST routine, the fileref '~/practice_exer/Mth_Rep' exceeds 8 character

pambardar — Sun, 10 Apr 2016 15:12:25 GMT

Thanks. I tried with assigning fileref and it worked.