topic How to delete one line from multiple SAS programs? in SAS Programming

How to delete one line from multiple SAS programs?

sandyming — Wed, 08 May 2013 21:13:30 GMT

I want to delete the same line from many SAS PROGRAMS. is there a easy way to do it?

Sandy

Tom — Wed, 08 May 2013 22:21:49 GMT

What tools do you have? sed should be able to do.

Since they are SAS programs why not use SAS to do it?

data _null_;

length infile outfile $200 ;

infile '*.sas' filename=infile ;

input ;

outfile = cats(infile,'.new');

file new filevar=outfile;

if _infile_^='DELETE THIS LINE;' then put _infile_;

run;

Sudhakar_A — Thu, 09 May 2013 09:42:12 GMT

Can you explain in detail about your requirement with an example?

ballardw — Thu, 09 May 2013 14:30:18 GMT

If you use Tom's approach make sure the length, the $200, actually covers the length of ALL lines in the files.

I know that programs really shouldn't have lines that long but occasional things like datalines may exceed that expectation.