Text searching in SAS code within an EG Project

[ecoware]

Is there some way to text search through a multitude of SAS program code listings within an EG Project. A variation of this, of course, is the ability to export all of the code listings, within a project, to a text file. I have tried to cut and paste but I have hundreds of programs embedded within numerous EG projects.
Thanks,
Steve

[deleted_user]

Hello Ecoware,

An EGP file is actually a set of xml, txt, ... zipped together. You can unzip an EGP: make a copy of the file, change the extension from EGP to ZIP and unzip it. You can then use the search functionnality of your file explorer to find the code you are looking for.

I hope this will help you,

Yoba

[ecoware]

Yoba,
Thanks for your very timely response !
I did change the extension to zip and the unzip process created a single .xml file and a series of folders; each folder containing a single .sas program.
I did not see any .txt files.
The .egp files were created with EG 4.1
Any additional advice would be very much appreciated.
Thanks again.

[sbb]

Consider this opportunity to use SAS to drive the unzip process (in batch) - you need not worry about any file-rename actually with this technique:

http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/forum2007/005-2007.pdf


Also, consider using SAS and FILENAME PIPE engine with a DATA step (to generate the SAS code) to identify and process your *.egp files programmatically, for further automation.

Scott Barry
SBBWorks, Inc.

[deleted_user]

Hello Ecoware,

Sorry ... instead of txt files, I should have written sas files. Sas files are actually in plain text.This means that you can search in those files with the file explorer.

Regards,

Yoba

[ecoware]

Thanks Yoba,
Good information and a solution to my building a code "knowledge base" that is searchable. I appreciate your time.
Steve

[charles_s_patridge]

Did you ever find / create a solution to this problem of searching for text within / across SAS EG project code?

[charles_s_patridge]

To ALL,

Chris Hemedinger of SAS Institute provided me with a solution that works.  The code/tool to do this is located at this URL - http://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2013/01/25/egp-search-tool2/

You can download the tool on your Windows Platform and run the code without having to get your IT people involved.

Thanks Chris for the tool and making it available to all.

Charles Patridge