Go to the documentation of this file.

/**
  @file mp_searchcols.sas
  @brief Searches all columns in a library
  @details
  Scans a set of libraries and creates a dataset containing all source tables
    containing one or more of a particular set of columns
 
  Usage:
 
      %mp_searchcols(libs=sashelp work, cols=name sex age)
 
  @param libs=
  @version 9.2
  @author Allan Bowe
**/
 
%macro mp_searchcols(libs=sashelp
  ,cols=
  ,outds=mp_searchcols
)/*/STORE SOURCE*/;
 
%put &sysmacroname process began at %sysfunc(datetime(),datetime19.);
 
/* get the list of tables in the library */
proc sql;
create table _data_ as
  select distinct upcase(libname) as libname
    , upcase(memname) as memname
    , upcase(name) as name
  from dictionary.columns
%if %sysevalf(%superq(libs)=,boolean)=0 %then %do;
  where upcase(libname) in ("IMPOSSIBLE",
  %local x;
  %do x=1 %to %sysfunc(countw(&libs));
   "%upcase(%scan(&libs,&x))"
  %end;
  )
%end;
  order by 1,2,3;
 
data &outds;
  set &syslast;
  length cols matchcols $32767;
  cols=upcase(symget('cols'));
  colcount=countw(cols);
  by libname memname name;
  if _n_=1 then do;
    putlog "Searching libs: &libs";
    putlog "Searching cols: " cols;
  end;
  if first.memname then do;
    sumcols=0;
    retain matchcols;
    matchcols='';
  end;
  if findw(cols,name,,'spit') then do;
    sumcols+1;
    matchcols=cats(matchcols)!!' '!!cats(name);
  end;
  if last.memname then do;
    if sumcols>0 then output;
    if sumcols=colcount then putlog "Full Match: " libname memname;
  end;
  keep libname memname sumcols matchcols;
run;
 
proc sort; by descending sumcols memname libname; run;
 
%put &sysmacroname process finished at %sysfunc(datetime(),datetime19.);
 
%mend;