Returns the engine type of a SAS library. More...

Go to the source code of this file.

Detailed Description

Usage:

%put %mf_getEngine(SASHELP);

returns:

V9

A note is also written to the log. The credit for this macro goes to the contributors of Chris Hemedingers blog post

Parameters

libref

Library reference (also accepts a 2 level libds ref).

Returns

output returns the library engine for the FIRST library encountered.

Warning

will only return the FIRST library engine - for concatenated libraries, with different engines, inconsistent results may be encountered.

Version

9.2

Author

Allan Bowe

Definition in file mf_getengine.sas.