RETRIEVE_VIEWER
Retrieves a viewer entry from a package.
Syntax
CALL RETRIEVE_VIEWER(entryId, filename, rc<,
properties, propValue1, ...propValueN>);
- entryId
- Numeric, input.
Identifies the file entry.
- filename
- Character, input.
Specifies the name of the file or fileref, using the following syntax:
- FILENAME: external_filename
- FILEREF: SAS_fileref
- rc
- Numeric, output.
Receives a return code.
- properties
- Character, input.
Identifies a comma-separated list of optional property names. Valid property
names are as follows:
- propValue1, ...propValueN
- Character, input.
Specifies one value for each specified property name. The order of the property
values must match the order of the property names in the properties
parameter. Valid property values are defined as follows:
- ENCODING
- Input character string indicates the target encoding for the retrieved viewer file. An example of a target encoding value is ISO-8859-1. Refer to Publish/Retrieve
Encoding Behavior for further information.
Details
Specifying "FILENAME:"
, without an external filename, applies to
the retrieved file the same name that was used when the file was initially
inserted into the package.
The following example retrieves a viewer from a package.
fname = "filename: /users/jsmith.bin";
CALL RETRIEVE_VIEWER(entryId, fname, rc);