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How to display name of the programme (for example l_ae.sas) inside the output which it is creating?

DrAbhijeetSafai — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 09:21:26 GMT

While this discussion accurately tells how to display last dataset used in the programme, I was thinking if there is a way to display the name of the programme inside the output?

If there is no way, then simply manually typing it in title or footnote is the solution but I would like to know if there is any way by which I can do it automatically so that I need not type it manually in each programme.

Thanks in advance!

-- Dr. Abhijeet Safai

Re: How to display name of the programme (for example l_ae.sas) inside the output which it is creati

Amir — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 09:40:34 GMT

Hi,

If you are using Enterprise Guide then Special automatic macro variables available in SAS Enterprise Guide might be of help, in particular _sasprogramfile.

Thanks & kind regards,

Amir.

Re: How to display name of the programme (for example l_ae.sas) inside the output which it is creati

Astounding — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 09:51:44 GMT

One approach:

title "Currently the program is %sysfunc(getoption(sysin))";

Also see:

https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Get-program-name-and-path-when-using-INCLUDE/td-p/529145

Re: How to display name of the programme (for example l_ae.sas) inside the output which it is creati

DrAbhijeetSafai — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 11:43:29 GMT

Thanks @Amir for the information.

I am using Base SAS. So in short, it is not available on Base SAS it seems. But thanks for sharing that it is available on Enterprise Guide.

Thanking you,

Yours sincerely,

- Dr. Abhijeet Safai

Re: How to display name of the programme (for example l_ae.sas) inside the output which it is creati

FreelanceReinh — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 10:16:28 GMT

Hello @DrAbhijeetSafai,

See "Example 6: How to Retrieve the Program Name That Is Currently Running in Batch Mode or Interactively" in the documentation for more options, in particular the Windows environment variables SAS_EXECFILENAME and SAS_EXECFILEPATH if you're running a program interactively.

Example:

title "This is program %sysget(sas_execfilename).";

Re: How to display name of the programme (for example l_ae.sas) inside the output which it is creati

DrAbhijeetSafai — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 10:43:18 GMT

@FreelanceReinh Many many thanks! This is working perfectly. Thanks.

- Dr. Abhijeet Safai

Re: How to display name of the programme (for example l_ae.sas) inside the output which it is creati

DrAbhijeetSafai — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 10:46:04 GMT

@Astounding This is working! So many thanks. There is a minor change which will need to be made though. It is showing 'full path' but I need only the name of the programme. I will make changes for that but your answer is very very helpful. Many thanks!

- Dr. Abhijeet Safai

Re: How to display name of the programme (for example l_ae.sas) inside the output which it is creati

Amir — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 11:01:01 GMT

Hi,

Feel free to mark another post (instead of mine) as the solution, as they are closer to what you were looking for.

Thanks & kind regards,

Amir.

Re: How to display name of the programme (for example l_ae.sas) inside the output which it is creati

DrAbhijeetSafai — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 12:28:09 GMT

Yes, I agree. However, it seems that it is not in my hands. I request admins to kindly mark this answer by @Astounding as the accepted solution by removing the current answer by @Amir as a solution. Also, kindly feel free to delete this message.

Thanks in advance.

- Dr. Abhijeet Safai

Re: How to display name of the programme (for example l_ae.sas) inside the output which it is creati

FreelanceReinh — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 12:22:41 GMT

@DrAbhijeetSafai wrote:

Yes, I agree. However, it seems that it is not in my hands.

Normally you can do it:

Select a different post as the solution after clicking "Not the Solution" in the option menu (see icon below) of the current solution.

Re: How to display name of the programme (for example l_ae.sas) inside the output which it is creati

DrAbhijeetSafai — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 12:27:40 GMT

Many thanks @FreelanceReinh !

- Dr. Abhijeet Safai