Date:         Fri, 9 Oct 2009 09:19:46 -0400
Reply-To:     "Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
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From:         "Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
Subject:      Re: Set Environment Variable Value from SAS
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> From: Kevin Myers
> Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 7:28 PM
> To: SAS-L@listserv.uga.edu
> Subject: Set Environment Variable Value from SAS
>
> I need to set the value of an existing system environment
> variable from within SAS under Windows.  This value needs to
> be set in the SAS copy of the environment, NOT in the copy of
> the environment for a child process, and not in the
> environment of the process that started SAS.  So simply
> executing an operating system SET command won't work.  The
> environment that needs to be accessed is the same copy of the
> environment from which %SYSGET() and the SYSGET() data step
> function obtain their values.  But I need to go the other
> way, with something that might be thought of as %SYSPUT or
> SYSPUT(), except that those functions don't appear to exist.
>
> I could swear that I have done this in the past, but I can't
> remember how, and I haven't been able to come up with
> anything by looking through the docs or searching the web.
>
> Anyone out there know how to accomplish this?

I have updated my Batch Processing under Win page with this information:

TinyUrl: http://tinyurl.com/6zlqoh

http://www.sascommunity.org/wiki/Batch_processing_under_Windows

caution: do not use Evar-names whose length is gt 8
while %sysget returns the value assigned

proc options option=set;

lists the long-named evar values as corrupted

Ron Fehd  the global constant == evar maven  CDC Atlanta GA USA RJF2 at
cdc dot gov