Now that we have the promotion leads, we will have to send the leads across to the marketing team to do the promotion.
The thing is, they have no access to SAS.
We will have to send the leads in a text file.
Before we learn how to export the leads to a text file, let's quickly go through how to access a local drive from your SAS University Edition software.
The SAS University Edition software runs on a virtual machine, which is considered a separate operating system.
You cannot directly export data to any folder of your local drive (such as C drive).
You can export data only to a folder that is shared by both the local computer and the virtual machine.
This folder is called a "shared folder" and the path is "/folders/myfolders"
For more information about how to access files through shared folders, please visit Data Set [9-14].
Now, let's assume you have enabled the shared folder in your SAS University Edition software.
Let's first create a sub-folder called "Projects" in the "myfolders" folder.
You then create a sub-folder called "Credit Card".
myfolders > Projects > Credit Card
In order for us to save the leads in this folder, we will first create a file reference in SAS using the Filename statement.