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GeorgeSAS
Lapis Lazuli | Level 10

Hello everyone,

 

I run sas on unix ,

I know the code below can get full path plus program name of the current program.

%let pathname = %sysfunc(getoption(sysin));

%put pathname;

But I only want path without program name. how to program?

 

Thanks!

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Astounding
PROC Star

There may be other ways, but you could certainly get it from &PATHNAME:

 

%let n_remove = %length(%scan(&pathname, -1, /));

 

%let pathname = %substr(&pathname, 1, %length(&pathname) - &n_remove - 1);

 

The extra -1 at the end removes the final / before the file name.

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Astounding
PROC Star

There may be other ways, but you could certainly get it from &PATHNAME:

 

%let n_remove = %length(%scan(&pathname, -1, /));

 

%let pathname = %substr(&pathname, 1, %length(&pathname) - &n_remove - 1);

 

The extra -1 at the end removes the final / before the file name.

GeorgeSAS
Lapis Lazuli | Level 10
%let path = %sysfunc(getoption(sysin));
%let n_remove3 = %eval(%length(%scan(&path, -1, /)) + %length(%scan(&path, -2, /)) + 1);
%let pathname3 = %substr(%sysfunc(getoption(sysin)), 1, %length(&path) - &n_remove3 - 1);

 %put pathname3 is : |&pathname3.|;

Thank you very much!

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