Date:         Tue, 9 Sep 2003 16:22:29 -0600
Reply-To:     Kenneth Moody <KennethMoody@FIRSTHEALTH.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Kenneth Moody <KennethMoody@FIRSTHEALTH.COM>
Subject:      Re: formats and using multiple libraries
Comments: To: kristie_35_89@YAHOO.COM
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Kristie Beth,

In order to access formats, the catalog they're in must be in the
format search path.  Take a look at the FMTSEARCH= system option to see
how you do this.

Ken

>>> "Kristie Beth" <kristie_35_89@YAHOO.COM> 09/09/03 03:14PM >>>
Whoops, I am sorry, I forgot to put my paths in quotes, they have
quotes in the program.  My program that I am using works fine except to
access the format library that is in each data folder.

Does anyone know why?  Or how to fix this?

thanks again and sorry I forgot my quotes in the original message,
Kristie

"Choate, Paul@DDS" <pchoate@DDS.CA.GOV> wrote:
Kristie -

Try the full path in quotes...

libname dat_02 'C:\sas\SASdata\company\study1\data\';
libname dat_03 'C:\sas\SASdata\company\study3\data\';
libname dat_04 'C:\sas\SASdata\company\study4\data\';

Paul Choate
DDS Data Extraction
(916) 654-2160

-----Original Message-----
From: Kristie Beth [mailto:kristie_35_89@YAHOO.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 2:51 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: formats and using multiple libraries

Hi SAS-L,

I am trying to assign mulitple libraries in order get data from
different
studies. Also, I want to be able to access each studies format library
which is stored with each studies data.

Here are my lib statements:

libname dat_02 \\sas\SASdata\company\study2\data\;

libname dat_03 \\sas\SASdata\company\study3\data\;

libname dat_04 \\sas\SASdata\company\study4\data\;

I cannot access the formats and I don't know why, I know that SASHelp
stores
a copy of the formats in SASHelp.vcatalog so I tried to clear the lib
reference after I was done with a particular dataset using libname
dat_02
clear;

This isn't working either... Does anyone have any ideas why this is
happening? I have looked at the SASHelp.vcatalog after issuing the
above
statement and the formats are cleared but still I cannot access the
formats
I want...

Thanks in advance, Kristie







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