SAS Macro to delete a SAS dataset

Here’s a simple SAS Macro to delete a SAS dataset…It takes the name of the SAS dataset as the parameter…

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%macro deletedsn(dsname);

%if %index(&dsname,.) eq 0  %then %do; %let lib=work; %let dsn=&dsname; %end;

%else %if %index(&dsname,.) gt 0  %then %do; %let lib=%scan(&dsname,1,.); %let dsn=%scan(&dsname,2,.); %end;

proc datasets lib=&lib nolist;

delete &dsn;

quit;

%mend deletedsn;

%deletedsn(new);

%deletedsn(somelib.new);