Can I create permanent libname in SAS Studio?

[jc3992]

hello everyone,

my code is as below:

 %let dirdata='/folders/myfolders';
libname perm '&dirdata';
run;

And the LOG shows:

 
 1          OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;
 72         
 73         %let dirdata='/folders/myfolders';
 74         libname perm '&dirdata';
 NOTE: Library PERM does not exist.
 75         run;
 76         
 77         
 78         OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;
 91         

I wonder if there is any method to create a permanent libname in SAS Studio?

Is there anyone kindly tell me what did I do wrong?

Thanks!

[Reeza]

Macro variables only resolve in double quotes, not single quotes. 

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@jc3992 wrote:

hello everyone,

my code is as below:

 %let dirdata='/folders/myfolders';
libname perm '&dirdata';
run;

And the LOG shows:

 
 1          OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;
 72         
 73         %let dirdata='/folders/myfolders';
 74         libname perm '&dirdata';
 NOTE: Library PERM does not exist.
 75         run;
 76         
 77         
 78         OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;
 91         

I wonder if there is any method to create a permanent libname in SAS Studio?

Is there anyone kindly tell me what did I do wrong?

Thanks!

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[jc3992]

 
 1          OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;
 72         
 73         %let dirdata= "/folders/myfolders";
 74         libname perm "dirdata";
 NOTE: Library PERM does not exist.
 75         run;
 76         
 77         OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;
 90         

still did not work though

[Reeza]

 73         %let dirdata= "/folders/myfolders/";
 74         libname perm "dirdata";

Does that work?

Did you update SAS UE? I thought we'd worked through this a few weeks ago.  

[jc3992]

No that did not work.

Last weekend I was using SAS 9.4 on the computer lab

now the same problem happened with SAS Studio

[Kurt_Bremser]

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@jc3992 wrote:

 
 1          OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;
 72         
 73         %let dirdata= "/folders/myfolders";
 74         libname perm "dirdata";
 NOTE: Library PERM does not exist.
 75         run;
 76         
 77         OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;
 90         

still did not work though

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No miracle. You deleted the necessary ampersand. Try

%let dirdata=/folders/myfolders;
libname perm "&dirdata";

[jc3992]

I succeeded by the code as below:

%let dirdata=/folders/myfolders;
libname perm "&dirdata";
run;

 
 1          OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;
 72         
 73         
 74         %let dirdata=/folders/myfolders;
 75         libname perm "&dirdata";
 NOTE: Libref PERM was successfully assigned as follows: 
       Engine:        V9 
       Physical Name: /folders/myfolders
 76         run;
 77         
 78         
 79         OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;
 92         

[Reeza]

Right...you had double quotes in each location, it goes in one or the other. 

But like I mentioned before, you really don't need the macro variable step at all. And macros are just confusing in the beginning. 

If you do want to work with macros, first make sure you have working code and then start adding the macro components.