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Di_Pat
Fluorite | Level 6

I have an urgent situation. I am trying to export excel file into current date and current time. 

Will be generating two files each day and final output needs to be like below. 

 

File should be named as such [mmddyyyyhhmmss]_ABC

 

Please help urgently. Thank you.

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TheShark
Obsidian | Level 7

Create a timestamp!

 

proc format;
  picture myfmt low-high = '%Y%0m%0d_%0H%0M%0S' (datatype = datetime) ;
run ;

%let timestamp=%sysfunc(datetime(), myfmt.);

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TheShark
Obsidian | Level 7

Create a timestamp!

 

proc format;
  picture myfmt low-high = '%Y%0m%0d_%0H%0M%0S' (datatype = datetime) ;
run ;

%let timestamp=%sysfunc(datetime(), myfmt.);
Di_Pat
Fluorite | Level 6

marco variable is created but proc export part is not working 

 


data _null_ ;
format dt mmddyy10. tm time. ;
dt = today() ;
tm = timepart(datetime()) ;
charval = compress(put(dt,mmddyy10.)||put(tm,time.), ":/") ;
call symput("dateval",charval) ;
run;

%put &dateval ;

 

 

proc export data= abc 
outfile='C:\Users\mno\New folder\&dateval..xlsx'
dbms = xlsx replace ; putnames=no;
run;

 

final output is generated with name as "&dateval.xlsx" 

no error in log.

Di_Pat
Fluorite | Level 6

Thank you. This works in proc export. There was a typo in my datastep. Thank you.

TheShark
Obsidian | Level 7
No problem, nice work!

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