An Introduction to SAS Applications of the Windows Scripting Host

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This paper introduces the Windows Scripting Host (WSH) as a simple, powerful, … The Windows Scripting Host is a component of Windows Operating Systems, …

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An Introduction to SAS?Applications of the Windows Scripting Host
Stephen Hunt, PRA International, Victoria, BC
Tracy Sherman, PRA International, Victoria, BC
Brian Fairfield-Carter, PRA International, Victoria, BC
ABSTRACT
Analysis Programmers in the Pharmaceutical industry are often confronted with a variety of requirements that are peripheral to the more common tasks of data manipulation and summarization. These include supporting multiple output file types (.doc, .rtf, .ps, .pdf), making operating system calls (for example, to retrieve file attribute information), and carrying out file-handling operations. These tasks are often satisfied through more obscure components of Base SAS (DDE, System functions, ‘pipe’ filename access, x/DOS commands), and through code-writing macros (custom output ‘drivers’), that allow SAS to interact with other applications.
This paper introduces the Windows Scripting Host (WSH) as a simple, powerful, and comprehensive tool for meeting all of the requirements listed above. The WSH allows VBScript and Jscript programs to run on the host operating system as stand-alone applications, and thus gives SAS programmers not only an environment in which to program in COM (the ‘Component Object Model’), but also…

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