Date:         Mon, 1 Dec 2008 10:34:27 -0800
Reply-To:     "Pardee, Roy" <pardee.r@GHC.ORG>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Pardee, Roy" <pardee.r@GHC.ORG>
Subject:      interactive prompt function in base sas?
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Hey All,

Several flavors of the base sas filename statement cause an interactive prompt to pop, for e.g., passwords and such.

Is there a general function or call routine in base sas that would allow me to write a macro that would interactively prompt the user for input?  Optimally this would be something from base sas (my macro needs to run at multiple sites & I don't know who's got what licensed other than base & stat) and would work both in batch and interactive sas (and even across rsubmit boundaries if possible).

Thanks!

-Roy

Roy Pardee
Research Analyst/Programmer
Group Health Center For Health Studies (Cancer Research Network)
(206) 287-2078
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