Date:         Wed, 22 Oct 2003 05:01:45 +0300
Reply-To:     Arto Raiskio <arto@RAISKIO.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Arto Raiskio <arto@RAISKIO.COM>
Subject:      Re: working with changing foldername in IE

"David L. Cassell" wrote
> Unfortunately, the folders will *always* keep changing names.  You're
> stuck with that.  It's designed that way.
> The best you can do from within SAS is to grab all four directory names,
> then walk through each to see if any of them have the target[1].jsp
> file.

so what you're saying is to simply use something like

note that if I change the 3rd line to
 rc=filename("XL", "C:\Windows");
this works fine, but does not work for system folder such as the IE temp
files
(mine is actually in e:\tmp\temporary internet files\)


data _null_;
 length list $ 1000;
 rc=filename("XL", "E:\Tmp\Temporary Internet Files\b");

 dirid=dopen("XL");
 dcnt=dnum(dirid);

 if dcnt>0 then
 do i=1 to dcnt;
  rd=dread(dirid, i);
  if index(rd, ".") then
    do;
   if list=" " then list=rd || " * ";
     else list=compbl(list) || trim(left(rd)) || " * " ;
    end;
 end;
 call symput("XL", list);

 rc=dclose(dirid);
run;

%put &xl.;