Scripting Guide - SAS

Chapter 6 Types of Data 107
Path Variables
Table 6.1 Path Variable Definitions (Continued)
Variable
Path
SAMPLE_IMPORT_DATA • Windows: "/C://Samples/Import Data/"
• Macintosh: "/Library/Application Support//Samples/Import Data/"
SAMPLE_SCRIPTS • Windows: "/C://Samples/Scripts/"
• Macintosh: "/Library/Application Support//Samples/Scripts/"
TEMP • Windows 7 and Vista: "/C:/Users//AppData/Local/
Temp/"
• Windows XP: "/C:/Documents and Settings//Local
Settings/Temp/"
• Macintosh: "/private/var/folders/.../Temporary Items/"
USER_APPDATA
Changes to JMP preferences,
menus, and the Home
Window are stored here,
along with Debugger session
settings.
• Windows 7 and Vista: "/C:/Users//AppData/Local/
SAS/JMP//"
• Windows XP: "/C:/Documents and Settings//Local
Settings/Application Data/SAS/JMP//"
• Macintosh: "/Users//Library/Application Support/JMP/
/"
Note: In JMP 9 and earlier, sample files were in the JMP Support Files directory for specific languages. For
example, Japanese sample data tables were in the JMP Support Files Japanese/Sample Data directory.
Now, multilingual sample data tables are in the Samples/Data directory.
To see the definition of any path variable, use the function Get Path Variable:
Get Path Variable("HOME");
"/C:/Users//AppData/Local/SAS/JMP/10/"
Note that you don’t include a dollar sign for Set Path Variable() or Get Path Variable(). But you
must include the dollar sign when using the variable in a script.
Create and Customize Path Variables
You can create your own path variables or override some of the built-in variables with the Set Path
Variable(). In the following example, the path variable is called root. The variable points to the c:/
directory.
Set Path Variable("root", "c:/");
To get the value of the new variable, use Get Path Variable().
Get Path Variable("root"); // returns "c:/"