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ctisseuil
Fluorite | Level 6

Hi, 

 

I'd like to store the project name from my project path into a macro variable... 

For example, let say my path is '/myprojectpath/filename'. I want to store the macro variable 'filename'. 

 

Here is the macro that I have started to develop, without success :  

%macro prgname;
%let s = &_CLIENTPROJECTPATH.;
%let delims = '\';
%let n = %sysfunc(countw(&s, &delims));
%let words = %sysfunc(scan(&s, 1:&n, &delims));
%mend prgname;


Could you highlight me ?

 

Thanks for your attention.

 

Clément

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andreas_lds
Jade | Level 19

The scan function has an option to start searching from the end of the string, called "B". Or you could use a negative number as second argument, so something like

%let cpp = %sysfunc(dequote(&_ClientProjectPath));
%let words = %sysfunc(scan(&cpp, -1, %str(\)));

should work.

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ctisseuil
Fluorite | Level 6

Ok, 

 

I think I have a better code than the previous one but still does not work...

%let fname = %sysfunc(scan(&_CLIENTPROJECTPATH,-1,"\"));
%put &fname;

Any ideas ?

andreas_lds
Jade | Level 19

The scan function has an option to start searching from the end of the string, called "B". Or you could use a negative number as second argument, so something like

%let cpp = %sysfunc(dequote(&_ClientProjectPath));
%let words = %sysfunc(scan(&cpp, -1, %str(\)));

should work.

ctisseuil
Fluorite | Level 6

Thank you Andreas,

 

It works perfectly !

PhilC
Rhodochrosite | Level 12
%let name=%sysfunc(tranwrd(&_CLIENTPROJECTNAME,&_CLIENTPROJECTPATH,));

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