_tempfilename.sas File Reference

creates a unique name for a temporary dataset in the form WORK.DATAxxx, where xxx is a consecutive integer. More...

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Detailed Description

creates a unique name for a temporary dataset in the form WORK.DATAxxx, where xxx is a consecutive integer.

The calling program will create a dataset with this name. All of these temporary datasets can be deleted at the end of the calling macro by a call like %delTempFiles (see delTempFiles.sas).

Important: in order to delete only datasets created in the calling macro program, define the macro symbol l_first_temp before the first call to %tempFileName: %LOCAL l_first_temp;

Call: %LOCAL macvar; %tempFileName(&macvar);

Version

$Revision: 315 $

Author

$Author: klandwich $

Date

$Date: 2014-02-28 10:25:18 +0100 (Fr, 28 Feb 2014) $

See Also

For further information please refer to SASUnit User's Guide

$HeadURL: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/sasunit/code/trunk/saspgm/sasunit/_tempfilename.sas $

Copyright

Copyright 2010, 2012 HMS Analytical Software GmbH. This file is part of SASUnit, the Unit testing framework for SAS(R) programs. For terms of usage under the GPL license see included file readme.txt or https://sourceforge.net/p/sasunit/wiki/readme.v1.2/.

Parameters

r_tempFile

name of maro variable to contain the generated name

Definition in file _tempfilename.sas.