SAS Metalib: _getCatalog

SAS Metalib: _getCatalog

Creates and initializes a SAS Catalog object from a SAS Metalib object

Syntax
Details

Syntax

CALL SEND (metalib-object-id, '_getCatalog', catalog-name, catalog-object-id);

Argument Type Description

catalog-name
C specifies the two-level name of a SAS catalog from metalib-object-id.

catalog-object-id
N returns the object identifier of the SAS Catalog object that is associated with the specified catalog-name. The catalog-object-id argument is not created if the libref for the SAS data library that contains the catalog is not associated with the SAS Metalib object (through _setup) or if the libref does not exist. In this case, the value of catalog-object-id is 0.

Argument	Type	Description
catalog-name	C	specifies the two-level name of a SAS catalog from metalib-object-id.
catalog-object-id	N	returns the object identifier of the SAS Catalog object that is associated with the specified catalog-name. The catalog-object-id argument is not created if the libref for the SAS data library that contains the catalog is not associated with the SAS Metalib object (through _setup) or if the libref does not exist. In this case, the value of catalog-object-id is `0`.

Details

The returned object identifier, catalog-object-id, can be used with the SAS Catalog object methods.

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