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INSERT


Inserts the specified pathname at the beginning of the value of the specified system option

Default: none
Valid in: SAS invocation, SASV8_OPTIONS environment variable, configuration file
UNIX specifics: all

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Syntax

-INSERT system-option new-pathname

system-option
can be HELPLOC, MAPS, MSG, SASAUTOS, or SASHELP.

new-pathname
is the new pathname that you want to insert at the front of the current value of system-option.

Details

By default, if you specify the HELPLOC, MAPS, MSG, SASAUTOS, or SASHELP system option more than one time, the last specification is the one that SAS uses. If you want to insert additional pathnames to front of the search paths already specified by one of these options, you must use the INSERT system option to add the new pathname. For example, if you entered the following SAS command, the only location that SAS will look for help files is /apps/help and the output of PROC OPTIONS will show only /apps/help: 

sas -helploc /apps/help
If you want SAS to look in both the current path for help files and in /apps/help and if you want SAS to search /apps/help first, then you must use the INSERT option: 
sas -insert helploc /apps/help
If your current path for help files is !SASROOT/X11/native_help, then for the value of the HELPLOC option, PROC OPTIONS will now show 
('/apps/help' '!SASROOT/X11/native_help')
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