topic Re: Last Modified Date of a SAS dataset in SAS Programming

Last Modified Date of a SAS dataset

MarcTC — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 01:26:58 GMT

Is there a faster way to retrieve last modified date of a SAS dataset than using PROC CONTENTS/MODATE?

Re: Last Modified Date of a SAS dataset

sbb — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 03:21:05 GMT

"Faster"? Look at SAS DICTIONARY TABLES for this type of information -- suggest searching the SAS support website.

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Re: Last Modified Date of a SAS dataset

Ksharp — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 03:49:37 GMT

Check out function attrn() :

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%let dsid=%sysfunc(open(sashelp.class));
%let modte=%sysfunc(attrn(&dsid,modte),datetime20.)
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Ksharp