Date:         Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:48:02 -0600
Reply-To:     Alan Churchill <savian001@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Alan Churchill <savian001@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: dynamically set up libname
Comments: To: SUBSCRIBE SAS-L Dan <deniseyu001@gmail.com>
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There are lots of ways of solving this problem. Here is one:

Ship your code with a configuration file and then dynamically allocate the
libname a needed.

Say you have a config file (parms.xml):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<parms>
        <library>c:\temp</library>
</parms>


...and some SAS code...


%macro allocate (libname=);
    libname Test "&libname" ;
%mend allocate;

%allocate(libname=c:\temp);

Marry the 2 pieces and you should have a way to dynamically allocate your
libraries. You could also use a datastep and a %include instead of a macro
but there are dozens of variations here.

Alan


Alan Churchill
Savian
www.savian.net


-----Original Message-----
From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
SUBSCRIBE SAS-L Dan
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 8:54 AM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: dynamically set up libname

SASLers:

I am having a task to dynamically set up the libname. Here is the situation:

libname derive 'I:\Test';

The data sets and programs are all reside at 'I:\Test';

Then we will copy the folder to a CD and give it to the client. They will
run on their own machine. Since now the physical location of the folder
will be changed to the client machine 'C:\"what ever their own machine
assign to the CD drive"\Test',

then how I am going to set up the libname in the program and let the client
do a "monkey" job to run the program? I think this is a mission impossible.

Thanks for the helping.


Dan