topic Re: Assignment of Library using another library in SAS Programming

Assignment of Library using another library

RahulG — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 10:02:24 GMT

I have a preassigned library Lib1.

Libname Lib1 "C:\MyDevWork\folder\";

In the code, library Lib2 being used a lot. Lib2 is same as Lib1, One way of creating Lib2 is use the path of Lib1 in libname statement.

I want to know -"Is there any way I can create Libname for Lib2 using Lib1 without worrying the path of Lib1?"

LinusH — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 10:25:42 GMT

Just use the libref, instead of the path:

RahulG — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 10:42:47 GMT

I tried followig but it did not worked

Libname Lib2 base lib1;

Please help.

Astounding — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 11:12:57 GMT

Have you tried inserting parentheses around (lib1)

Kurt_Bremser — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 11:46:16 GMT

You could also try

libname lib2 "%sysfunc(pathname(lib1))";

Reeza — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 11:46:21 GMT

You want Example 2 in the link provided.

Libname lib2 (lib1);

RahulG — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 04:43:52 GMT

Thank you everyone for quick reply. it is helpful.