How to put the files listing into a sas dataset

[alepage]

Hello I am using the following command to get the listing of the S3 bucket. it goes into the log file.

How to put it into a SAS dataset?

%let s3bucketpath=s3://***-pr-brz-datareten-edp-nprod;

filename oscmd pipe "aws s3 ls ""&s3bucketpath."" ";

[ChrisHemedinger · Accepted solution]

You need to pair this PIPE output with a DATA step, something like:

data WANT; 
  infile oscmd pad; 
  input LINE 256.;
  /* parse the line into fields */
  FNAME=substr(X,..); 
run;

[alepage]

I am not familliar with pad

What does it stand for ?

[Tom]

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@alepage wrote:

I am not familliar with pad

What does it stand for ?

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It means what it sounds like.  The lines are padded with spaces to the full logical record length.

Not much use for it since they introduced the TRUNCOVER option some 30 to 40 years ago.