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The text below is my response to SAS Tech Support regarding their
reply to a question I had a while back. What I was wishing for was a
way to right-click on a libref in the SAS explorer and open a Windows
Explorer window. I usually keep all my documentation and load jobs in
the same directory as the SAS datasets. The SAS guys didn't have a
way to do exactly what I wanted, but I was able to come up with a
reasonable workaround as a result.
My idea follows, and is based on the use of Turbonote, one of my
"can't -live-without" utilities. It occurred to me that we probably
all have great utilities we've found over the years. What is yours?
Subject: Re: [SAS 7610108677] Right click on library and open
in Windows Explorer
Thanks for your follow-up. You did a great job of answering my
question, and I'm glad it may be considered for inclusion in SAS at
some future time.
Thanks to your suggestion of LIBNAME _ALL_ LIST, I have created a workaround.
I use a computerized sticky-note program called Turbonote (
www.turbonote.com). I have used it for probably 10 years, and we love
it. It is probably the best program I've found that no one else has
ever heard of. (It is pre-InstantMessage.)
I can send "pop-up" notes to other staff which instantly pop up on
their screens, can email from it, etc. I can have a chat session with
other staff. I can have "hot-links" in a note so that if it looks
like a file, directory (folder) or internet address, I can just
double click and presto, I'm there. And I can also paste information
from the clipboard into a note just by pressing Alt-Shift-C.
Using your suggestion, I wrote a little snippet of code which lists
all libraries to the clipboard, then I just paste that in a
turbonote. Then I just have to pop up the note, scroll to that
library listing and double-click on the physical path, and I'm there.
The reason I have to quote the path below is that if there are blanks
in the physical path, the link must be in double-quotes for the
hot-link to work in turbonote.
Turbonote is also very inexpensive, even free for non-commercial use
if you can live with the unobtrusive advertising. I think it starts
at about $15 for a single seat. I would use it all the time even if
it didn't have the inter-staff communication features.
*---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7;
proc printto log='c:\liblist.txt';run;
libname _all_ list;
proc printto;run;
data liblist;
length libname $8 physical $80;
infile 'c:\liblist.txt' scanover;
input @"Libref= " libname @"Physical Name= " physical ;
run;
proc sort noduprec;by libname;run;
** For some reason each record is otherwise duped???;
filename _temp_ clipbrd;
data _null_;
set liblist;
physical=quote(trim(physical));
file _temp_;
put libname @20 physical;
run;
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