SAS Catalog: _copy

SAS Catalog: _copy

Copies a SAS catalog

Syntax
Details
Example

Syntax

CALL SEND (catalog-object-id, '_copy', target-catalog-name<, new-catalog-object>);

Argument Type Description

target-catalog-name
C specifies the two-level name of the target catalog to which the catalog that is associated with catalog-object-id is to be copied

new-catalog-object
N returns the object identifier of the new SAS Catalog object created for target-catalog-name

Argument	Type	Description
target-catalog-name	C	specifies the two-level name of the target catalog to which the catalog that is associated with catalog-object-id is to be copied
new-catalog-object	N	returns the object identifier of the new SAS Catalog object created for target-catalog-name

Details

The _copy method copies the SAS catalog that is associated with catalog-object-id to a new SAS catalog. If the second parameter is specified, a new SAS Catalog object, associated with target-catalog-name, is created and its object identifier is returned.

Example

This example copies the SAS catalog, SASUSER.CAT1, to SASUSER.CAT2, creates a new SAS Catalog object for SASUSER.CAT2, and returns that object identifier in CATOBJ2:

catclass=loadclass('sashelp.fsp.catalog.
                    class');
catobj1=instance(catclass);
catobj2=0;
call send (catobj1, '_setup_', 'sasuser.
           cat1');
call send (catobj1, '_copy_', 'sasuser.cat2',
           catobj2);

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