Hi everyone,
****UPDATE: Would you know how to replace the ":" delimiters in the created_at variable whose values are in the ddmmmyyyy:hh:mm:ss format with an underscore? ****************
I have a program which outputs multiple excel files and two emails where the file name has the date (date_pulled). I need to revise the file names to provide the timestamp as well.
Is there a common SAS format, variable which is used for producing timestamps I can use instead? Or would you suggest revising the date_pulled values so it takes out the ":" delimiters from the created_at variable instead of using datepart on the created_at variable?
The filenames ar:
<file path>\Liaison QC Report &date_pulled..xml
Thanks for the suggestions in advance!
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CURRENT CODE:
%macro file_attribs(filename);
%local rc fid fidc;
%global created_at;
%let rc=%sysfunc(filename(onefile,&filename));
%let fid=%sysfunc(fopen(&onefile));
%let created_at=%sysfunc(finfo(&fid,Create Time));
%let fidc=%sysfunc(fclose(&fid));
%let rc=%sysfunc(filename(onefile));
%mend file_attribs;
%file_attribs(&path.\&infile..csv);
%put &created_at.;
%let date_pulled = %sysfunc(datepart("&created_at."dt),yymmddn8.);
%put &date_pulled.;
Thanks, Reeza! I d used compress and another sysfunc -- this looks great
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