SAS Tip: Create folders with DCREATE function (Daily tip for 2026-Jul-14)


The DCREATE function can be used to create directories independently of the OS.


Thanks to Art Carpenter for this tip. Read more details in this paper from WUSS 2017: Building Intelligent Macros Using Metadata Functions with the SAS Macro Language.

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