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aamoen
Obsidian | Level 7

I'm seen people use the following mehtod for a libname:

 

libname a '.'; 

 

What's the reason for doing this?

 

 

Thanks!

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Tom
Super User Tom
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On both UNIX and WINDOW the use of a single period as a filepath means to use the CURRENT WORKING DIRECTORY.

 

I usually use HERE as the libref (instead of the A in your example) to make it clearer.

libname here '.';

 

Check out this macro for an example that uses it. https://github.com/sasutils/macros/blob/master/curdir.sas

 

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