Hey SAS-C!
"Trick or treat" season is in bloom and the SPF has a new treat for developers.
This release "treat" is brand new utility macro that allows you to do some usefully "tricks" when you want to create a packages structure from "one-big-code" file. Details below.
All the best
Bart
SAS Packages Framework, version 20241027
Changes:
New simple utility macro: %splitCodeForPackage() added to the framework. Now we have a dozen!
The macro is a "helping-hand" for those developers who have a "one-big-code" file and want to turn it into a package structure (separate files in subdirectories) but are to lazy to do it manually. Whit help of additional tags the macro automatically splits the code file according to the developer's wish.
Run:
%splitCodeForPackage(HELP)
to see more details or, probably even better, visit the Documentation and Hands-on-Workshops materials to learn how %splitCodeForPackage() works .
Example:
Let's assume that the myPackageCode.sas file is located in the C:/lazy/ folder and contain the following code and tags:
/*##$##-code-block-start-##$## 01_macro(abc) */
%macro abc();
%put I am "abc".;
%mend abc;
/*##$##-code-block-end-##$## 01_macro(abc) */
/*##$##-code-block-start-##$## 01_macro(efg) */
%macro efg();
%put I am "efg".;
%mend efg;
/*##$##-code-block-end-##$## 01_macro(efg) */
proc FCMP outlib=work.f.p;
/*##$##-code-block-start-##$## 02_functions(xyz) */
function xyz(n);
return(n**2 + n + 1)
endfunc;
/*##$##-code-block-end-##$## 02_functions(xyz) */
quit;
and we want results in C:/split/ folder. We run the following:
filename packages "C:/SAS_PACKAGES"; %* a directory for the framework and packages;
%include packages(SPFinit.sas); %* enable the framework;
%splitCodeForPackage(
codeFile=C:/lazy/myPackageCode.sas
,packagePath=C:/split/ )
As a result two subdirectories 01_macro and 02_functions are created inside C:/split/. The first contains two files: abc.sas and efg.sas with corresponding macros definitions, the second contains xyz.sas file with definition of the xyz function.
Nesting, overlapping, and multiple file redirection is supported.
