how to delete a weird directory from within SAS?

[Newlifewithegg]

I use sas studio and mistakenly created a weird directory by a wrong sas statement as

options dlcreatedir

libname  myname "output;

and the directory created is

output;OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;ODS HTML CLOSE;GOPTIONS NOACCESSIBLE;; ;*';*

my question is, how to possibly delete this directory from within SAS?

[Newlifewithegg]

please ignore the syntax error coming with a missing ; following dlcreatedir

[Reeza]

Do you have the log? It should have the path the folder is created/assigned.

If so, navigate to that location using Servers Files Folders Pane and delete the folder created.

[Newlifewithegg]

Thanks, I definitely am able to remove it with system operations outside of SAS. But the purpose here is to practice with SAS, thus am asking whether there is way to deal with this case within SAS.

[Quentin · Accepted solution]

You can try the FDELETE() function:

filename testdir 'physical-filename';
data _null_;
   rc=fdelete('testdir');
   put rc=;
   msg=sysmsg();
   put msg=;
run;

Example is from the documentation:

https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/pgmsascdc/9.4_3.5/lefunctionsref/p0h945u5r0cv6yn1u6qs35hiqt9t.h...

[Reeza]

You mean using code rather than the GUI I assume?

In that case, FDELETE is the simplest way as shown by @Quentin 

[Kurt_Bremser]

Make sure no datasets exist in the library, then de-assign the libname first:

proc datasets lib=output kill;
quit;
libname myname clear;

Then run:

data _null_;
rc= fdelete("output;OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;ODS HTML CLOSE;GOPTIONS NOACCESSIBLE;; ;*';*");
run;

[Newlifewithegg]

Thank you all for your help. Seems the issue is more fundamental and nearly irrelevant to sas programming. The weird filename cannot be be copy/pasted to sas studio environment, it can only be pasted into word/textbox etc environments.

Another more complete solution can be found at

https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/delete-a-folder-directory-and-all-files-on-it/td-p/58...

if the directory contains files