Scripting Guide - SAS

Appendix A JSL Syntax Reference 677
SAS Integration Functions
SAS Name("name")
SAS Name({list of names})
Description
Converts JMP variable names to SAS variable names by changing special characters and blanks to
underscores and various other transformations to produce a valid SAS name.
Returns
A string that contains one or more valid SAS names, separated by spaces.
Argument
"name" A quoted string that represents a JMP variable name; or a list of quoted JMP variable names.
SAS Open For Var Names("path")
Description
Opens a SAS data set only to obtain the names of its variables, returning those names as a list of strings.
Returns
A list of variable names in the file.
Argument
"path" A quoted string that is a pathname of a SAS data set.
SAS Send File(source, dest)
Description
Send a file from the client machine to the active global SAS server connection.
Returns
1 if successful, 0 otherwise.
Arguments
source Quoted string that contains the full path of the file on the client machine to be uploaded to the
server.
dest Quoted string that contains the full path on the server that receives the file uploaded from the
client machine.
SAS Submit("sas code", )
Description
Submit some SAS code to the active global SAS server connection.
Returns
1 if successful, 0 otherwise.
Arguments
sasCode Quoted string that contains the SAS code to submit.
Named Arguments
All named arguments are optional.