Date:         Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:09:44 +0000
Reply-To:     "Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/OCOO/ITSO)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
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From:         "Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/OCOO/ITSO)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
Subject:      Re: Obtain a dataset with .sas files and file version numbers?
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Yes:
http://www.sascommunity.org/wiki/Making_Lists

make list of files
make list of folders

Ron Fehd  list-making maven

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mary Rosenbloom [mailto:mary.rosenbloom.sas@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 9:22 PM
> To: Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/OCOO/ITSO)
> Cc: SAS-L@listserv.uga.edu
> Subject: Re: Obtain a dataset with .sas files and file version numbers?
>
> Hi all,
>
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Titaan Titaan <titaan08@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Mary,
> > Is this what you want?
> >
> > filename indata pipe 'dir C:\Users\Desktop\*sas /b';
> >
> > data pgms;
> >  infile "C:\Users\Desktop\*sas" lrecl = 200 pad;
> >  length progline $200;
> >  input progline $char200.;
> >  progline = upcase(left(progline));
> > run;
> > data pgms;
> >  set pgms;
> >  if index(progline,'SAS VERSION:') or index(progline,'AUTHORS
> NAME:');
> > run;
> >
> > Regards,
> > T
> >
>
> This code works great.  Is there any way to look into the folder and
> any subfolders, and any subfolders of subfolders, etc to find any .sas
> files, or will I need to specify the exact folder location each time?
>
> Thanks so much to all of you for your suggestions.  I'll circle back
> on this and let you know what I end up doing for a final solution.
>
> Cheers,
> Mary R.