topic Re: Can I create permanent libname in SAS Studio? in SAS Studio

Can I create permanent libname in SAS Studio?

jc3992 — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 17:29:50 GMT

hello everyone,

my code is as below:

 %let dirdata='/folders/myfolders';
libname perm '&dirdata';
run;

And the LOG shows:

 
 1          OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;
 72         
 73         %let dirdata='/folders/myfolders';
 74         libname perm '&dirdata';
 NOTE: Library PERM does not exist.
 75         run;
 76         
 77         
 78         OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;
 91

I wonder if there is any method to create a permanent libname in SAS Studio?

Is there anyone kindly tell me what did I do wrong?

Thanks!

Re: Can I create permanent libname in SAS Studio?

Reeza — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 17:42:11 GMT

Macro variables only resolve in double quotes, not single quotes.

@jc3992 wrote:

hello everyone,

my code is as below:
 %let dirdata='/folders/myfolders';
libname perm '&dirdata';
run;
And the LOG shows:
 
 1          OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;
 72         
 73         %let dirdata='/folders/myfolders';
 74         libname perm '&dirdata';
 NOTE: Library PERM does not exist.
 75         run;
 76         
 77         
 78         OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;
 91         
I wonder if there is any method to create a permanent libname in SAS Studio?

Is there anyone kindly tell me what did I do wrong?

Thanks!

Re: Can I create permanent libname in SAS Studio?

jc3992 — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 18:10:25 GMT

 
 1          OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;
 72         
 73         %let dirdata= "/folders/myfolders";
 74         libname perm "dirdata";
 NOTE: Library PERM does not exist.
 75         run;
 76         
 77         OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;
 90

still did not work though

Re: Can I create permanent libname in SAS Studio?

Reeza — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 18:55:39 GMT

 73         %let dirdata= "/folders/myfolders/";
 74         libname perm "dirdata";

Does that work?

Did you update SAS UE? I thought we'd worked through this a few weeks ago.

Re: Can I create permanent libname in SAS Studio?

jc3992 — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 19:32:25 GMT

No that did not work.

Last weekend I was using SAS 9.4 on the computer lab

now the same problem happened with SAS Studio

Re: Can I create permanent libname in SAS Studio?

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 19:44:12 GMT

@jc3992 wrote:

 
 1          OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;
 72         
 73         %let dirdata= "/folders/myfolders";
 74         libname perm "dirdata";
 NOTE: Library PERM does not exist.
 75         run;
 76         
 77         OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;
 90

still did not work though

No miracle. You deleted the necessary ampersand. Try

%let dirdata=/folders/myfolders;
libname perm "&dirdata";

Re: Can I create permanent libname in SAS Studio?

jc3992 — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 19:57:04 GMT

I succeeded by the code as below:

%let dirdata=/folders/myfolders;
libname perm "&dirdata";
run;

 
 1          OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;
 72         
 73         
 74         %let dirdata=/folders/myfolders;
 75         libname perm "&dirdata";
 NOTE: Libref PERM was successfully assigned as follows: 
       Engine:        V9 
       Physical Name: /folders/myfolders
 76         run;
 77         
 78         
 79         OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;
 92

Re: Can I create permanent libname in SAS Studio?

Reeza — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 20:54:35 GMT

Right...you had double quotes in each location, it goes in one or the other.

But like I mentioned before, you really don't need the macro variable step at all. And macros are just confusing in the beginning.

If you do want to work with macros, first make sure you have working code and then start adding the macro components.