topic Building email address in SAS Programming

Building email address

tomrvincent — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 18:39:51 GMT

If your e-mail is of the form xyyyyy@domain.com (like jsmith@foobar.com ) you can use this to derive the email address from system variable _CLIENTUSERNAME:

    /* determine email address from _CLIENTUSERNAME */

   data _null_;
       emailaddress=trim(compress(lowcase(substr(scan(&_CLIENTUSERNAME, -1),1,1)||scan(&_CLIENTUSERNAME, 1))||'@domain.com'));
       firstname   =trim(compress(lowcase(scan(&_CLIENTUSERNAME,-1))));
       lastname    =trim(compress(lowcase(scan(&_CLIENTUSERNAME,+1))));
       call symput('firstname', trim(firstname));
       call symput('lastname', trim(lastname));
       call symput('emailaddress', trim(emailaddress));
   run;

   %put &=emailaddress;

Re: Building email address

Reeza — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 19:12:09 GMT

Hi @tomrvincent. It looks like you're trying to post content that can be shared/library type reference code for people. This is a great idea, please consider posting them as Articles rather than posts. Posts are typically for questions. I also like to keep a set over on github, personal choice.

https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Communities-Library/tkb-p/library

And add New Article.

Looking forward to seeing your posts!

Re: Building email address

tomrvincent — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 14:27:27 GMT

I had never heard of or seen that...thanks for the suggestion.

just tried it...got this:

You have not yet achieved the experience level on the community to create your own article. Keep coming back and posting discussion topics though, and you'll earn it!

oh, well...