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suraestar
Calcite | Level 5

Is there any SAS Function to check atleast a dataset present in a location/library?

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suraestar
Calcite | Level 5

Hi, I used the below code to check whether any dataset is exist in a location.. Is there any simpler way to do this??? libname target 'c:\temp\'; %let lib  = target; proc sql noprint; select count(*) into:lcount from sashelp.vtable where upcase(libname)="%upcase(&lib)" and MEMTYPE='DATA'; quit; %put lcount=&lcount;

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ScottBass
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

Check out the proc sql dictionary.tables table, or the sashelp.vtable view of the same.


Please post your question as a self-contained data step in the form of "have" (source) and "want" (desired results).
I won't contribute to your post if I can't cut-and-paste your syntactically correct code into SAS.
RichardinOz
Quartz | Level 8

exist() for a SAS dataset, or fexist() for any file or directory

Richard

suraestar
Calcite | Level 5

Hi, I used the below code to check whether any dataset is exist in a location.. Is there any simpler way to do this??? libname target 'c:\temp\'; %let lib  = target; proc sql noprint; select count(*) into:lcount from sashelp.vtable where upcase(libname)="%upcase(&lib)" and MEMTYPE='DATA'; quit; %put lcount=&lcount;

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