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emsmpa
Calcite | Level 5

Hi,

is it possible to have SAS macros in subdirectories of a directory added to SASAUTOS?

E.g.:

SASAUTOS ('/path/to/macrodir')

We want to call all macros that are saved in subdirectories, like '/path/to/macrodir/basic_macros/' or '/path/to/macrodir/specific_macros/' automatically without adding all subdirectories to the AUTOCALL facility.

Thanks in advance!

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SASKiwi
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Unfortunately I don't think there is a simple answer for this.

You can use a FILEREF in SASAUTOS like SASAUTOS (myfileref) and this can point to multiple directories but then you have to define the fileref in a FILENAME statement that would require you to list all of the sub-directories anyway.

One possibility might be to pipe in a list of sub-directories via an operating system command and using the PIPE option on a FILENAME statement. It looks like you are using Unix and unfortunately I don't have access to a Unix environment to test this out. Hopefully someone else can.

emsmpa
Calcite | Level 5

Thanks!

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