Date:         Mon, 3 Jan 2011 13:32:47 -0600
Reply-To:     Joe Matise <snoopy369@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Joe Matise <snoopy369@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Macro Reading Filename
Comments: To: Brian Trautman <btrautman84@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To:  <201101031913.p03BnLlU004357@wasabi.cc.uga.edu>
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Brian,
What's the end goal here?  If it's simply to 'do things based on the
[provided] LRECL', then %let (or call the macro with the LRECL as a
parameter) seems perfectly reasonable.  I assume you must have a reason for
not wanting to do it that way - what is it?  Do you want to automatically
determine the LRECL?

Thanks,

Joe

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Brian Trautman <btrautman84@gmail.com>wrote:

> I have the following SAS program --
>
>  filename fs ftp "'SAMPLE.LOC'"
>  binary host="srvr"
>  user=user
>  pass=pass
>  lrecl=200
>  debug ;
>
> DATA FFSheet_01_FPPS_Sort ;
>
>  INFILE fs ;
>  INPUT
>      @001 Blob            $EBCDIC100.
>      @ ;
>
> RUN ;
>
> I'd like to be able to write a macro that detects the lrecl used in my
> filename statement, and does things based on it.  I know one way to do it
> would be to simply do something like this --
>
> %let llen = 200;
>
>  filename fs ftp "'SAMPLE.LOC'"
>  binary host="srvr"
>  user=user
>  pass=pass
>  lrecl=&llen
>  debug ;
>
> However, I'd like to avoid this solution if at all possible.  Are there any
> other options?
>