Date:         Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:26:07 -0800
Reply-To:     Twiggy182 <twiggy182@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From:         Twiggy182 <twiggy182@HOTMAIL.COM>
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Subject:      Passing parameter to a script under UNIX
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Hi,

I got a script that print some information in two differents files.
But now I need to change the name of theses files ( who were hardcoded
) at each execution. So I tried to pass parameter to my script this
way

    "sas myscriptname.sas -sysparm 'file1.ext file2.ext'"

and access them with

    "proc printto print = %scan( &sysparm, 1 )"
and
    "proc printto print = %scan( &sysparm, 2 )"

but the two files produce are "file1.lst" and "ext.lst".

Then I tried

    "proc printto print = %scan( &sysparm, 1, ' ')"
    "proc printto print = %scan( &sysparm, 2, ' ')"

but then the two files were print in the file "myscriptname.lst".

So could you please help me to understand how parameter work!

Thank you

Twiggy