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And especially Rupinder Dhillon ( pp Christy Hobley)
Annual General Meeting … nominally
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2. Welcome NESUG Last year in Baltimore – lots of fun
This year in Portland, Maine
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/*******************C o m m e n t s*******************
Arthur S. Tabachneck, Ph.D.
Manager Statistical Research and Development
Vehicle Information Centre of Canada
240 Duncan Mill Road- Suite 700
Don Mills, Ontario M3B 1Z4
Phone: (Ext. 224)
*************Explanation of Macro SETSPATH************
The SETSPATH macro identifies the most recently opened SAS file,
and stores the file's path (excluding file name and extension)
in the global variable PATH4SAS.
NOTE: the macro appears to work regardless of whether the file was
opened from within the SAS editor, or passed in by a Window's
shortcut to SAS
The file SASHELP.VEXTFL contains a history of all files that have been
opened, with the variable XPATH containing the files' full pathnames
(including path, filename and extension). The record with the highest
value in the variable FILEREF is selected, and parsed, in order to
set PATH4SAS to equal the desired path
The Macro Setpath assumes that the file was either opened from within
the SAS system editor, or passed into SAS by clicking on the file's
icon from Window NT Explorer (outside of either by selecting FILE
and then clicking on the most recent file, or by having clicked
on the SAS FILE->OPEN menu options)
The global variable path4sas is first initialized in order to avoid
a system crash in the event that the macro fails
**********End- Explanation of Macro SETSPATH**********
********************END of Comments*******************/
%global path4sas;
%macro setspath;
%let path4sas = 'C:\My Documents\My SAS Files\V8';
data srt999;
set sashelp.vextfl;
if ( substr ( fileref, 1, 3 ) = "#LN"
and upcase ( substr ( reverse ( trim ( left ( xpath ) ) ), 1, 3 ) ) = "SAS"
and upcase ( substr ( reverse ( trim ( left ( xpath ) ) ), 5, 8 ) ) ^= "SAS4HTAP" );
run;
proc sort data=srt999;
by descending fileref;
data _null_;
set srt999 ( obs = 1 );
a = reverse ( trim ( left ( xpath ) ) );
b = '\';
c = index ( a, b );
path4sas = reverse ( substr ( reverse ( trim ( left ( xpath ) ) ), c ) );
call symput ( 'path4sas', trim ( left ( lowcase ( path4sas ) ) ) );
%mend setspath ;
%setspath