Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1998 23:14:15 -0400
Reply-To:     Richard A DeVenezia <radevenz@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Richard A DeVenezia <radevenz@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Organization: ICGNetcom
Subject:      Re: scanning sas files for date formats

Eddie,
 
Your best bet is to peruse the SASHELP.VCOLUMN.
It will tell you the libname, member name, column name and column format.
 
The hardest part is to ensure that any directory that may contain datasets
has a libref to it during your review.
 
On a PC or network, use Find Files named *.ssd
On a Unix box try: find / -name "*ssd*" -print
 
If these searches turn up a dataset in a directory that is not accessible in
your current SAS session you will need to assign a libname to that directory
so the dataset will be shown in the SASHELP.VCOLUMN.
 
Good Luck.
 
Richard DeVenezia
 
Eddie Stormont wrote in message
<903129491.13743.0.nnrp-10.c2defdbe@news.demon.co.uk>...
>To anyone who can shed some light on this topical problem that I pose to
>you:
>
>I am trying to write a program in SAS using a data step that will bring in
>SAS files whereby I can scan them for date formats and create a dataset
>containing these formats. Any suggestions on how to do this will be greatly
>appreciated. I am aware of a SAS module that scans programs during run time
>for these date formats but I want to be able to search programs whilst they
>are not being executed. Any feedback is welcome. This is to deal with the
>millennium problem.
>
>