Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:48:05 -0400
Reply-To: Arthur Tabachneck <art297@NETSCAPE.NET>
Sender: "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From: Arthur Tabachneck <art297@NETSCAPE.NET>
Subject: Re: Most recent input data set
Dan,
What do you get if, for the second put statement, you use:
%put &_VTtableLabel.';
i.e., with a single quote between the period and semi-colon?
Art
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On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:44:51 -0700, Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA)
<NordlDJ@DSHS.WA.GOV> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
>> Arthur Tabachneck
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 5:18 PM
>> To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>> Subject: Re: Most recent input data set
>>
>> Paul,
>>
>> I accidentally made that find running 9.1.3 M3 on a Windows 2003
>> server.
>>
>> Art
>>
>> P.S. But, I'll agree, that it MAY not have existed (or at least I
>> didn't
>> know about it) on my first SAS system in 1974. :)
>> --------On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:45:55 -0700, Choate, Paul@DDS
>> <Paul.Choate@DDS.CA.GOV> wrote:
>>
>> >Nice Art.
>> >
>> >&_VTtableName and &_VTtableLabel must be SAS 9.2 feature - we did't
>> have
>> that back in 2004 when *my* SAS software was written.
>> >
>> >CrDate MoDate are available from dictionary.tables or sashelp.vtable -
>> but no accessed datetime is made available (in 9.13), which could be
>> used
>> to select the post recently accessed dataset.
>> >
>> >Paul Choate
>> >DDS Data Extraction
>> >(916) 654-2160
>> >
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
>> Arthur Tabachneck
>> >Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 4:14 PM
>> >To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>> >Subject: Re: Most recent input data set
>> >
>> >Daniel,
>> >
>> >I MUST have misread your question, as it isn't often that I discover
>> >something that datanull doesn't already know.
>> >
>> >And, to be honest, I'm not sure how to harvest the following, thus I
>> will
>> >simply post what I found and hope others can explain and show you how
>> you
>> >might be able to use it. It was the result of submitting some code
>> with a
>> >typo.
>> >
>> >If you run the following code:
>> >
>> >proc print data=sashelp.class;
>> >run;
>> >%put &_VTtableName.;
>> >%put &_VTtableLabel.';
>> >
>> >Your log will show something like the following:
>> >
>> >114 proc print data=sashelp.class;
>> >115 run;
>> >116 %put &_VTtableName.;
>> >117 %put &_VTtableLabel.';
>> >';proc print data=sashelp.class;run;%put &_VTtableName.;%put
>> >&_VTtableLabel.'
>> >
>
>Art and Paul,
>
>I get the following warnings when I try to run that code (Windows 7 64-
bit, SAS 9.2 32-bit or 64-bit and on Window Server 2003 with SAS 9.1.3
service pack 4):
>
>
>WARNING: Apparent symbolic reference _VTTABLENAME not resolved.
>290 %put &_VTtableName.;
>&_VTtableName.
>291 %put &_VTtableLabel.;
>WARNING: Apparent symbolic reference _VTTABLELABEL not resolved.
>&_VTtableLabel.
>
>
>Dan
>
>Daniel J. Nordlund
>Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
>Planning, Performance, and Accountability
>Research and Data Analysis Division
>Olympia, WA 98504-5204
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