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nikhilwagh
Obsidian | Level 7

Hi Friends,

 

I'm using SAS Studio 3.6 and I want to get the a sub directory paths from macro string.

Ex. - I have string &path as below -

 

%let path=&_SASPROGRAMFILE ;

 

%put &path;

C:\myfile\souce\ABC123\XYZ111\code\prg\myprg.sas

 

from above path I want to create macros which should give me subdirectory  paths like -

 

root=C:\myfile\souce\

project=ABC123

Study=XYZ111

 

The folder structures are standard from project to project and study to study. so My aim is to assign libraries autoamtically somthing like this.

 

libname raw "&root.\&project.\&study\data\raw";

 

 

Thanks,

 

- Nikhil

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Kurt_Bremser
Super User

Do it in a data step and use call symput:

%let path=C:\myfile\souce\ABC123\XYZ111\code\prg\myprg.sas;

data _null_;
path = "&path";
parts = countw(path,'\');
length root $200 project study $50;
do i = 1 to parts - 5;
  root = catx('\',root,scan(path,i,'\'));
end;
project = scan(path,parts - 4,'\');
study = scan(path,parts - 3,'\');
call symput('root',trim(root));
call symput('project',trim(project));
call symput('study',trim(study));
run;

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Kurt_Bremser
Super User

Do it in a data step and use call symput:

%let path=C:\myfile\souce\ABC123\XYZ111\code\prg\myprg.sas;

data _null_;
path = "&path";
parts = countw(path,'\');
length root $200 project study $50;
do i = 1 to parts - 5;
  root = catx('\',root,scan(path,i,'\'));
end;
project = scan(path,parts - 4,'\');
study = scan(path,parts - 3,'\');
call symput('root',trim(root));
call symput('project',trim(project));
call symput('study',trim(study));
run;
nikhilwagh
Obsidian | Level 7

Thank you Kurt!

It served my purpose perfectly.

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