Date:         Tue, 13 Feb 2001 17:16:18 -0800
Reply-To:     "William W. Viergever" <wwvierg@IBM.NET>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "William W. Viergever" <wwvierg@IBM.NET>
Subject:      Re: WNT:  Using environment variables in LIBNAME statements
Comments: To: David Dickinson <dickinsn@NOSPAM.URREA.ORG>
In-Reply-To:  <3A89DA63.DE68E489@NOSPAM.urrea.org>
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I like this better than mine - way better!

At 08:07 PM 2/13/2001 -0500, David Dickinson wrote:
>try
>
>libname u "\\server\share\%sysget(username)";
>
>David
>
>Jack Shoemaker wrote:
>
> > Dear SAS-L,
> >
> > If my WNT username is 'shoe' and I have a folder called shoe in the
> > '\\SERVER\Share' share, then I would like to make this LIBNAME statement
> > work:
> >
> > libname u '\\SERVER\Share\%USERNAME%'; run;
> >
> > Trouble is, the above doesn't work for me under WNT4.0SP6 SAS 8.1.  Does
> > anyone know the trick to de-reference the USERNAME environment variable so
> > that it will work in a LIBNAME statement?
> >
> > TIA - Jack
> >
> > --
> > Jack N Shoemaker / JShoemaker@Accordant.net
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> > site http://www.accordant.net
>
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>David Dickinson, URREA

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