I did the following code as shown in the video in the Programming 1 course and it created a .bak file replication of the excel file that I exported.
Do I need this .bak file? some sort of back up? Can I delete it or not create it in the first place?
It is a backup and you can delete it. Not sure if you can instruct SAS to not create a backup in first place.
Weird when I use same code and no .bak file was created for storm45.xlsx
So SAS just randomly create .bak file or is it based on some rule?
I ran the same code again few times, but this time no .bak was created
libname myxl clear;
has not effect on create of .bak file it seems.
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