Date:         Fri, 23 Feb 2001 17:17:40 +0100
Reply-To:     Peter Crawford <peter.crawford@DB.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Peter Crawford <peter.crawford@DB.COM>
Subject:      Re: PROBLEM WITH CONCATENATION
Comments: To: nicolas.pont@unicible.ch
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use a trim() on program  ...I think it is getting a default length of $200 !
That leaves no room in LIB for any suffix like "\simc"
try       lib="&home"||trim(program)||"\simc"


Datum:         23/02/2001 15:44
An:            SAS-L@listserv.uga.edu




Antwort an:    nicolas.pont@unicible.ch

Betreff:       PROBLEM WITH CONCATENATION
Nachrichtentext:


Hello,

I dont understand

 WY I THE VAR LIB DOESN'T CONTAIN THE STRING "simc"
but only c:\test and contain of the variable program


data _null_ ;
   length lib $100 ;
   rc=filename('dir',"c:\test");
   dirid=dopen('dir');
   numsel=dnum(dirid);
   program=compress(dread(dirid,i));
   do i=1 to numsel;
      program=compress(dread(dirid,i));
      if program Ne '.' and program Ne '..' then do ;

       /* WY I THE VAR LIB DOESN'T CONTAIN THE STRING "simc"   */

/*****************************************************************************/
      lib="&home"||program||"simc" ;
      put lib=;
    end ;
  end ;
  rc=dclose(dirid);
run;

Thanks for any help


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