That's not a very robust solution: what if SAS introduces a new type? Then you have to change the program to include the name of that new type. I prefer to use the dictionnary tables. ... View more

I am not interested in the existence, I know already the member exists. I want to know the type of a library member. As explained earlier I need that information because I want to delete member from SCL. And the scl delete function takes two arguments: name (the name of member to delete) and type (the type of member to delete). ... View more

Yes, I probably have to use dictionary tables. I'll solve it that way in combination with Ksharp's suggestion and write my own funtion. ... View more

Using SCL I want to delete all member from the work library. This is my program:   init: dcl sashelp.classes.sasfilelist_c.class memobj; dcl num rc i memcount; dcl char member; memobj = _new_ sashelp.classes.sasfilelist_c(); memobj.library = 'work'; memcount = memobj._count(); do i = 1 to memcount; member= memobj._getItem(i); rc = delete(member); end; memobj._term(); return;   But this will only delete data sets because the 'delete'-function takes as second argument the member type (default is data set). So I need to know the member type to pass to the delete statement in order to delete all members.    I could do this in a submit-block using proc datasets but I don't want anything to appear in the log or log buffer.   By the way in response to RW9: there are more types than only data and catalog, for example view, mddb etc. ... View more