Using SAS Macro to pipe a list of filenames from a Windows directory

Question

I am trying to amend the macro below to accept a macro parameter as the \'location\' argument for a dir command. However I cannot get it to resolve correctly due to the nes

Answer 1

Based on the last sample on this page, instead of the filename statement, try

%let filrf=pipedir;
%let rc=%sysfunc(filename(filrf,%bquote(dir "&location" /b),pipe));

and call the macro without using quotes:

%get_filenames(c:\temp\with spaces);

I also tried macro quoting, but couldn't get it to work.