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From: Joe Matise on 15 Sep 2009 14:54
Yep.

x "md <directory name>"; (and of course use whatever macro variable in that
you want).

Use OPTION NOXWAIT, also.

-Joe

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Norris, Paul <Paul.Norris(a)ucsf.edu> wrote:

> I'd like to programmatically create a destination folder for jobs that
> appends the datetime to the name of the folder.
>
> Is it possible to create a folder in Windows from SAS and give it a name
> generated in the SAS program?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul Norris
> UCSF
>
From: Shankar on 15 Sep 2009 15:37
It might be better to do this using the function DCREATE;

data _null_;

length test $32;

/* test can be a data set variable */

test=strip('test1_' !! put(today(),best.));

NewDirectory=dcreate(test,'/local/u/abcdef/');

run;

If directory could not be created then NewDirectory would be empty;
Please see documentation;

thanks,
Shankar
From: Adolfo Lopez on 15 Sep 2009 15:05
Yes, the following command will create a directory using a macro variable.
You can define the variable in you SAS program prior to submitting this
line of code. FYI, this is submitted outside of the data step.


x mkdir &dirnam.;

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I'd like to programmatically create a destination folder for jobs that
appends the datetime to the name of the folder.

Is it possible to create a folder in Windows from SAS and give it a name
generated in the SAS program?

Thanks,

Paul Norris
UCSF




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From: Nathaniel Wooding on 15 Sep 2009 15:21
I have never used it but there is the V9 function

DCREATE (dirname,<pdir>) creates directory dirname under current working
directory or parent directory pdir; returns full pathname if
successful, null string if unscuccessful
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From: Kevin Viel on 18 Sep 2009 09:36
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:47:23 -0700, Norris, Paul <Paul.Norris(a)UCSF.EDU>
wrote:

>I'd like to programmatically create a destination folder for jobs that
>appends the datetime to the name of the folder.
>
>Is it possible to create a folder in Windows from SAS and give it a name
>generated in the SAS program?

Surely. In fact, I created an ugly macro for my Windows box:



%Macro DCreate ( Path = ) ;

Data _null_ ;

Length Path $ 500
Folder $ 100
;

Path = Scan( "&Path." , 1 , "\" ) ;

Do _n_ = 2 To CountC( "&Path." , "\" ) + 1 ;
Folder = Scan( "&Path." , _n_ , "\" ) ;
RC = DCreate( Folder , Path ) ;
Path = CatS( Path , "\" , Folder ) ;
If RC ne " " then put RC= ;
End ;

Run ;

%MEnd DCreate ;

HTH,

Kevin
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