Returns the appLoc from the _program variable. More...

Detailed Description

When working with SASjs apps, web services / tests / jobs are always deployed to a root (app) location in the SAS logical folder tree.

When building apps for use in other environments, you do not necessarily know where the backend services will be deployed. Therefore a function like this is handy in order to dynamically figure out the appLoc, and enable other services to be connected by a relative reference.

SASjs apps always have the same immediate substructure (one or more of the following):

/data
/jobs
/services
/tests
/tests/jobs
/tests/services
/tests/macros

This function works by testing for the existence of any of the above in the automatic _program variable, and returning the part to the left of it.

Usage:

%put %mf_getapploc(&_program)

%put %mf_getapploc(/some/location/services/admin/myservice);
%put %mf_getapploc(/some/location/jobs/extract/somejob/);
%put %mf_getapploc(/some/location/tests/jobs/somejob/);

Parameters

[in] pgm The _program value from which to extract the appLoc

Author: Allan Bowe

Definition in file mf_getapploc.sas.