SAS Metalib: _getDatafile

SAS Metalib: _getDatafile

Creates and initializes a SAS Data File object from this SAS Metalib object

Syntax
Details

Syntax

CALL SEND (metalib-object-id, '_getDatafile', datafile-name, datafile-object-id);

Argument Type Description

datafile-name
C specifies the two-level name of a SAS data file in metalib-object-id

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

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

Details

The returned object identifier, datafile-object-id, can be used with the SAS Data File object methods.

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