topic Re: Executing .exe file thru SAS in SAS Programming

Executing .exe file thru SAS

Tushh — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 10:46:53 GMT

1) How to call .exe file in SAS 9.4? OR SAS Enterprise Guide?

Re: Executing .exe file thru SAS

LinusH — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 10:52:57 GMT

Call execute, call system or X statement.

For Enterprise Guide (or any other workspace server enabled SAS session), you need ALLOWXCMD option to be set.

Re: Executing .exe file thru SAS

DanielSantos — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 11:07:06 GMT

Hi.

In addition and if you want to retrieve the output of that command you could use the pipe feature.

data _null_;
     infile '<myfile.exe>' pipe;
     input; * read from output;
     putlog _infile_; * show it in the log;
run;

Daniel Santos @ www.cgd.pt

Re: Executing .exe file thru SAS

Kurt_Bremser — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 11:31:46 GMT

To expand on @DanielSantos's example, I'd use this:

data _null_;
     infile '<myfile.exe> 2>&1' pipe;
     input; * read from output;
     putlog _infile_; * show it in the log;
run;

The 2>&1 reroutes stderr output to stdout, and so all messages are caught and written to the log.

Be aware that you may not be able to do this (or use any of the suggestions) if your SAS workspace server runs on a different machine or even on a different operating system.

Re: Executing .exe file thru SAS

Tushh — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 13:07:57 GMT

Thank U

Re: Executing .exe file thru SAS

Tushh — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 13:08:10 GMT

Thank U