asserttableexists.sas File Reference

Check whether a certain data set, view or catalogue exists. More...

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Detailed Description

Check whether a certain data set, view or catalogue exists.

Setting the optional parameter i_not to 1 allows to test whether a certain data set, view or catalogue does not exist.
Step 1: Check whether library has been assigned successfully.
Step 2: Check for existence with exist function

Version

$Revision: 316 $

Author

$Author: akirchmann $

Date

$Date: 2014-03-02 10:20:58 +0100 (So, 02 Mrz 2014) $

See Also

For further information please refer to SASUnit User's Guide Here you can find the SASUnit documentation, release notes and license information.

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

i_libref	library in which the test candidate can be found
i_memname	name of data set, view or catalogue to be tested
i_target	optional: Explicit test for existence of a dataset,view or catalogue (Possible arguments: data, view, catalog). If i_target is not given data will be used as default.
i_desc	description of the assertion to be checked default: "Check for existence of a specific dataset"
i_not	optional: negates the assertion, if set to 1. Set to 0 no negation takes place. If the library hasn't been assigned successfully parameter i_not has no effect.

Definition in file asserttableexists.sas.