Executing .exe file thru SAS

[Tushh]

1) How to call .exe file in SAS 9.4? OR SAS Enterprise Guide?

[LinusH]

Call execute, call system or X statement.

For Enterprise Guide (or any other workspace server enabled SAS session), you need ALLOWXCMD option to be set.

[DanielSantos]

Hi.

In addition and if you want to retrieve the output of that command you could use the pipe feature.

data _null_;
     infile '<myfile.exe>' pipe;
     input; * read from output;
     putlog _infile_; * show it in the log;
run;

Daniel Santos @ www.cgd.pt

[Kurt_Bremser · Accepted solution]

To expand on @DanielSantos's example, I'd use this:

data _null_;
     infile '<myfile.exe> 2>&1' pipe;
     input; * read from output;
     putlog _infile_; * show it in the log;
run;

The 2>&1 reroutes stderr output to stdout, and so all messages are caught and written to the log.

Be aware that you may not be able to do this (or use any of the suggestions) if your SAS workspace server runs on a different machine or even on a different operating system.

[Tushh]

Thank U

[Tushh]

Thank U