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Art holds a PhD from Michigan State University,has been a SAS user since 1974, is president

of the Toronto Area SAS Society and hasreceived such recognitions as the SAS

Customer Value Award (2009), SAS-LHall of Fame (2011), SAS Circle of

Excellence (2012) and, in 2013,was recognized as being the

first SAS user to have beenawarded more than 10,000

points on the SASDiscussion Forums

Presenter: Arthur Tabachneck

SAS® Global Forum 2014

March 23-26 Washington, DC

Arthur TabachneckThornhill, ON Canada

Tom AbernathyNew York, NY

Matt KastinPenn Valley, PA

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How many of you are able to export SAS

datasets to Excel using PROC EXPORT?

Question

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Would you like to automate the process to be

a point-and-click menu option?

If your answer was "YES"

and

Would you like to be able to:

• include or exclude the variable name row

• export a table starting at a specific cell

• add a table to an existing worksheet

• copy a file to your system's clipboard

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Would you like to be able to export SAS datasets

to Excel, without needing SAS/Access for PC File

Formats, have the same options as mentioned

on the previous slide, AND be able to automate

the process to be a point-and-click menu option?

Regardless of whether you answered YES or NO

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and, of course,

in ways that appear to accomplish

the tasks almost automagically

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what the solution looks like

Right click on a dataset name

in the SAS Explorer window

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Then select the desired Action(i.e., press hot key (E) or point and left-click)

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The Workbook will automagically be created

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Left-click anywhere in the SAS Explorer Window

how to get those capabilities

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Left-click on Tools, move your mouse to Options→Explorer


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Left-click on Members


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Then double left-click on Table


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left-click on Add and an Add Action screen will appear


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Type the text you want to add to the menu

&Export to Excel

Action: &Export to ExcelIt will appear on the menu as: Export to Excel

Note: You can make one character a hotkey by

preceding it with an ampersand


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Left click in the Action Command box

&Export to Excel


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Action Commands only accept up to 255 characters

SAS Explorer comes with a built-in action called Copy Contents to Clipboard, but it creates an HTML file, contains some possibly undesired headers, shading and borders and runs 138.67 times slower than the methods we've proposed

The 255 character limitation can be circumvented by submitting a macro

When using gsubmit in an Action Command, everything between the two single quotes will be submitted

some key points about the Action Command

% has a special meaning in Action Commands thus, if you need to use a % (e.g., to call a macro), use two %s

When a SAS dataset is selected %8b and %32b can be used to refer to the libname and filename, respectively

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the macro can produce 7 different actions, dependent upon how it is called. Action #1:

Action Commandgsubmit '%%exportxl(%8b,%32b,P,YES,NO)';

gsubmit '%%exportxl(%8b,%32b,P,YES,NO)';

&Export to Excel

our paper presents a SAS macro: %exportxl

runs proc export* on the dataset, creating an Excel workbook in the directory

* requires SAS/Access for PC File Formats

libnm filenm type usenames range

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click on OK to exit the Add Action screen

gsubmit '%%exportxl(%8b,%32b,P,YES)';

&Export to Excel

after you have entered the action command

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click on OK to exit the Table Options screen

then,

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Once you have completed those stepswhenever you right click on a file in the SAS Explorer

window, and select the action:

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The Workbook will automagically be created

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Action Commandgsubmit '%%exportxl(%8b,%32b,S,YES,NO)';

gsubmit '%%exportxl(%8b,%32b,S,YES,NO)';

Export to Excel with Variable &Names

the other six action commands: Action #2

produces an Excel workbook that will include variable names in the first row

Note: Outcomes 2-7 only require base SAS


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Action Commandgsubmit '%%exportxl(%8b,%32b,S,YES,YES)';

gsubmit '%%exportxl(%8b,%32b,S,YES,YES)';

Export to Excel &Range with Variable Names

produces an Excel workbook that will include variable names and let you indicate the

upper left cell where the table should begin



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Action Commandgsubmit '%%exportxl(%8b,%32b,S,NO,NO)';

gsubmit '%%exportxl(%8b,%32b,S,NO.NO)';

Export to Excel w/&o Variable Names

produces an Excel workbook that will not include variable names in the first row



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Action Commandgsubmit '%%exportxl(%8b,%32b,S,NO,YES)';

gsubmit '%%exportxl(%8b,%32b,S,NO.YES)';

Export to Excel Range w/o Variable Names

produces an Excel workbook (excluding variable names) and will let you indicate the upper left cell where the table should begin



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Action Commandgsubmit '%%exportxl(%8b,%32b,C,YES,NO)';

gsubmit '%%exportxl(%8b,%32b,C,YES,NO)';

E &xport to Clipboard with variable names

copies the dataset (with variable names) to your clipboard so that you can paste it

into another program



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Action Commandgsubmit '%%exportxl(%8b,%32b,C,NO,NO)';

gsubmit '%%exportxl(%8b,%32b,C,NO,NO)';

&Export to Clipboard w/o Variable Names

copies the dataset (without variable names) to your clipboard so that you can paste it

into another program



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if you use one of the Actions with range=YES*

enter the upper left cell where the range should begin and then press your <enter> key

*Note: not applicable to Action #1 as proc export doesn't support outputting to a range

the following screen will appear when you select the action

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and, if you use Actions 2-5

i.e., the program will ask you whether it should, or shouldn't, replace the existing file

if the workbook already exists, ascreen like the following will appear

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Save the file as exportxl.sas in a directory thatexists in your SASAUTOS* path

* see: http://analytics.ncsu.edu/sesug/2008/SBC-126.pdf

where to get the macro

Copy the SAS program from:http://www.sascommunity.org/mwiki/images/f/f4/1793-2014.sas

http://analytics.ncsu.edu/sesug/2008/SBC-126.pdf

http://www.sascommunity.org/mwiki/images/f/f4/1793-2014.sas

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%macro exportxl(libnm,filenm,type,usenames,range);%let filepath=%sysfunc(pathname(&libnm.));%if &type. eq P %then %do;

proc exportdata=&libnm..&filenm.outfile= "&filepath.\&filenm..xlsx" dbms=xlsxreplace;

run;%end;

how the macro works

libnm filenm type usenames

%8b %32bP for Proc ExportS for vbs script

C for Clipboard

include row withvariable names

YESNO

%let filepath=%sysfunc(pathname(&libnm.));

whether table shouldbe written to a range

YESNO

range

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%macro exportxl(libnm,filenm,type,usenames);%let filepath=%sysfunc(pathname(&libnm.));%if &type. eq P %then %do;

proc exportdata=&libnm..&filenm.outfile= "&filepath.\&filenm..xlsx" dbms=xlsxreplace;

run;%end;

%if &type. eq P %then %do;proc exportdata=&libnm..&filenm.outfile= "&filepath.\&filenm..xlsx" dbms=xlsxreplace;

run;%end;

how the macro works

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%else %do;proc fcmp outlib=work.func.util;function c2cb(lib $,mem $, usenm $);rc=filename('clippy',' ','clipbrd');if rc ne 0 then return(1);fid=fopen('clippy','o',0,'v');if fid eq 0 then do;rc = filename( 'clippy' );return(2);

end;dsid=open(catx('.',lib,mem));if dsid eq 0 then do;rc=fclose(fid);rc=filename('clippy');return(3);

end;

how the macro works

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end;

how the macro works

Open the clipbrd so that we can

write to it

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end;

how the macro works

Open the SAS dataset so that we can read it

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nvar=attrn(dsid,'nvar');array v[1] /nosymbols;call dynamic_array(v,nvar);do i = 1 to nvar;

v[i]=ifn( vartype(dsid,i)='C',1,2);if usenm eq 'YES' then do;if i gt 1 then rc=fput(fid,'09'x);rc=fput(fid,varname(dsid,i));

end;end;if usenm eq 'YES' then rc=fwrite(fid);do i=1 to attrn(dsid,'nlobs');

rc=fetchobs(dsid,i);do j=1 to nvar;

if j gt 1 then rc=fput(fid,'09'x);if (v[j] eq 1) then rc=fput(fid, getvarc(dsid,j));else do;fmt=varfmt(dsid,j) ;if missing(fmt) then fmt='best12.';rc=fput(fid,putc(putn(getvarn(dsid,j),fmt),'$char12.'));

end;end;rc=fwrite(fid);

end;

how the macro works

Get number of variables and declare array

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end;

how the macro works

Assign values to array based

on variable type

Assign variable names

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end;

how the macro works

Write variable names

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end;

how the macro works

Get data and formats and write tab-delimited records

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rc=fclose(fid);

rc=close(dsid);

rc=filename('clippy');

return(0);

endsub;

quit;

%local cmplib;

%let cmplib=%sysfunc(getoption(cmplib));

options cmplib=(work.func);

%put %sysfunc(c2cb(&libnm,&filenm,&usenames)) ;

options cmplib=(&cmplib);

how the macro works

Cleanup

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how the macro works

rc=fclose(fid);

rc=close(dsid);

rc=filename('clippy');

return(0);

endsub;

quit;

%local cmplib;

%let cmplib=%sysfunc(getoption(cmplib));

options cmplib=(work.func);

%put %sysfunc(c2cb(&libnm,&filenm,&usenames)) ;

options cmplib=(&cmplib);

Get optionsRun FunctionReset Options

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%if &range. eq YES %then %do;data _null_;window range rows=8 columns=80irow=1 icolumn=2 color=black#2 @3 'Enter the upper left cell where range should begin (e.g. D5): 'color=gray range $8. required=yesattr=underline color=yellow;DISPLAY range blank;call symput('range',range);stop;

run;%end;%else %do;

%let range=A1;%end;

how the macro works

Display windowto let users

identify range

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%if &range. eq YES %then %do;data _null_;window range rows=8 columns=80irow=1 icolumn=2 color=black#2 @3 'Enter the upper left cell where range should begin (e.g. D5): 'color=gray range $8. required=yesattr=underline color=yellow;DISPLAY range blank;call symput('range',range);stop;

run;%end;%else %do;

%let range=A1;%end;

how the macro works

Otherwise,set default

range

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%if &type. eq S %then %do;data _null_;length script filevar $256;script = catx('\',pathname('WORK'),'PasteIt.vbs');filevar = script;script="'"||'cscript "'||trim(script)||'"'||"'";call symput('script',script);file dummy1 filevar=filevar recfm=v lrecl=512;put 'Dim objExcel';put 'Dim Newbook';put 'Set objExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application")';put 'Set Newbook = objExcel.Workbooks.Add()';put 'objExcel.Visible = True';Script='Newbook.Sheets("Sheet1").Range("'||"&Range."||'").Activate';put script;put 'Newbook.Sheets("Sheet1").Paste';put 'Newbook.Sheets("Sheet1").Select';put 'Newbook.Sheets("Sheet1").Name = "'@;put "&filenm."@;put '"';

how the macro worksIf type eq S then

create a VBS scriptcalled PasteIt.vbs

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how the macro works%if &type. eq S %then %do;data _null_;length script filevar $256;script = catx('\',pathname('WORK'),'PasteIt.vbs');filevar = script;script="'"||'cscript "'||trim(script)||'"'||"'";call symput('script',script);file dummy1 filevar=filevar recfm=v lrecl=512;put 'Dim objExcel';put 'Dim Newbook';put 'Set objExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application")';put 'Set Newbook = objExcel.Workbooks.Add()';put 'objExcel.Visible = True';Script='Newbook.Sheets("Sheet1").Range("'||"&Range."||'").Activate';put script;put 'Newbook.Sheets("Sheet1").Paste';put 'Newbook.Sheets("Sheet1").Select';put 'Newbook.Sheets("Sheet1").Name = "'@;put "&filenm."@;put '"';

Add a worksheet,make it the active sheet

paste the clipboard,and assign sheet name

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put 'Newbook.SaveAs("'@;put "&filepath.\&filenm..xlsx"@;put '")';put "Newbook.Close";

put 'objExcel = Nothing';put 'Newbook = Nothing';script="'"||'cscript "'||trim(script)||'"'||"'";call symput('script',script);

run;

data _null_;call system(&script.);

run;%end;

%end;%mend exportxl;

how the macro works

Save and closethe workbook

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run;


run;%end;


how the macro works

Cleanup andwrite command

line to macrovariable &script

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run;


run;%end;


how the macro works

Run theVBS script

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What the ExportXL macro is and where you can download it

How the macro works

How you can set up Action Commands to call the macro to accomplish things that you can't do with proc export

summary of what I just presented:

How you can create Action Commands in the SAS Explorer window

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Export to Excel

Copy Variable Names to Clipboard

Run Proc Contents

Get descriptive statistics

Show all correlations

Run Proc Means

Print bar charts

Run Proc Freq

and, if you want, you can use the same method to add all of your repeated tasks to the SAS Explorer menu

Your comments and questionsare valued and encouraged

Contact the Authors

Arthur Tabachneck, Ph.D.myQNA, Inc.Thornhill, [email protected]

Tom AbernathyPfizer, Inc.New York, [email protected]

Matt KastinI-Behavior, Inc.Penn Valley, [email protected]

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