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Problem Note 39417: PATHNAME function not working as documented in SAS® 9 and above
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The PATHNAME function does not return the correct results when the search-ref option is NOT used.
Here is what is stated in the online documentation.If you do not specify a search-ref argument, and the name of a fileref is identical to the name of a libref, PATHNAME searches first for a fileref.
It was discovered that in previous releases the function was not returning the same default results as it was in SCL. Development changed the behavior to be the same as the SCL version of the function, and have requested that the documentation be changed.
The workaround is to use the search-ref option.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | Base SAS | Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9 TS M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9 TS M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9 TS M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| z/OS | 9 TS M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9 TS M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9 TS M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9 TS M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9 TS M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9 TS M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9 TS M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9 TS M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 9 TS M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Linux | 9 TS M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| OpenVMS Alpha | 9 TS M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Tru64 UNIX | 9 TS M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||