SAS/AF Software: Class Dictionary

Using the SAS Library Class

You can create a SAS Library object. When you instantiate a SAS Library object, only the object identifier is created. You then add information about a SAS library to the object. This step is referred to as initializing the object. To initialize a SAS Library object, use either the _assign or the _setup method. This example creates a SAS Library object, LIBOBJ, and initializes it with information about SASUSER:

libclass=loadclass
         ('sashelp.fsp.library.class');
libobj=instance(libclass);
call send(libobj, '_setup_', 'sasuser');

If you use PUTLIST to list the contents of LIBOBJ, you see

( _class=2621
  DESC='SAS Library Class'
  ATTRIBUTES=( SEQUENTIAL=0
              )[2641]
  ENGINE='V611'
  NAME='SASUSER'
  PATHS=_blank
/* */

  SERVER=''
  PATH=( 'pathname/sasuser'
        )[2639]
  DATA_REP=''
 )[2635]

The values that you see may be different from these.

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