Parsing capabilities for SAS code

[orsosamuele]

Hello Team,

I was wondering if this tool can be used to parse SAS code and represent it as an AST (Abstract syntax tree).
I would need a kind of parser/linter to analyze SAS code.

Many thanks.

Samuele

[allanbowe]

Hey there! We have considered building a feature along these lines using the sasjs/cli, but you should know that it would never be 100% accurate, due to the dynamic / data driven nature of SAS code.

Feel free to reach out on our matrix to discuss further: https://matrix.to/#/#sasjs:4gl.io

[orsosamuele]

Hi @allanbowe,

I read the paper at the link here below but it seems that the mentioned tool in no longer available (or at least, I didn't find it). I was looking to something similar and was wondering if your tool can coverage more or less those capabilities.

https://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings18/2543-2018.pdf

Many thanks.
Samuele

[allanbowe]

We don't have that feature. We have a linter, but the rules are built with regular expressions, not a fully parsed syntax tree.

We're open to building it, we've been asked for similar things in the past. Let us know if it's something your team would like to sponsor.