Specifying multiple XPT files using Command Line Client

f Frank

on November 21, 2012

I've written a SAS macro that builds a BAT file to run OpenCDISC validator. It's robust - user can control model, IG version, location of XLS file, etc. - but one thing I can't figure out is how to specify a list of XPT files to validate (currently, the only options are all XPTs or a single one). The SOURCE parameter for a single dataset looks like:

-source="projectDirectory\adpe.xpt" ^
I've tried variations such as:

-source="projectDirectory\adpe.xpt adpe.xpt" ^
-source="projectDirectory\adpe.xpt" "projectDirectory\adsl.xpt" ^

and so on. They either fail when Java starts or create a message in the XLS file saying input file format is invalid (or something similar).

So ... is what I want to do possible? If so, can you give an example of how to code it?

Thanks for your help!

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t Tim

on November 21, 2012

RE: Specifying multiple XPT files using Command Line Client

Hi,

The source parameter expects a list of inputs that are separated by the platform-specific path separator (";" on Windows, ":" on Linux), so you'd want something like:

-source="projectDirectory\adpe.xpt;projectDirectory\adsl.xpt"

We'll be updating documentation for the upcoming 1.4 release, so hopefully things like this should be a little clearer going forward.

Regards,
Tim

f Frank

on November 21, 2012