Date:         Wed, 16 Feb 2000 19:10:13 "GMT"
Reply-To:     "David L. Ward" <dward@SASHELP.COM>
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From:         "David L. Ward" <dward@SASHELP.COM>
Subject:      Re: Can I include datafile name in the SAS command line?
Comments: To: oliver <oliver@AGYINC.COM>
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To answer the question exactly as asked, use the sysparm option when SAS is invocated i.e.
    SAS command.sas -sysparm 'nameofdatafile.data'
Then replace your infile statements with
    infile "&sysparm";  (double quotes are important to make the macro variable resolve)

It sounds like learning some SAS macro programming would help you quite a bit.  Using fairly simple macro code you could have SAS read in a list of file names and run your code for each filename, all within the same program.

HTH
David Ward
SASHelp.com

-----Original Message-----
From:    oliver <oliver@AGYINC.COM>
Sent:    2/16/00 6:52:47 PM
Subject: Can I include datafile name in the SAS command line?

> Hi, SAS experts
>
>I have to run SAS against so many different data file. I used to replace
>the infile inside  .sas file each time. This time i face almost hundred
>different data file. Is it possible that I can give the datafile name
>out of the sas file and run in the command line  like
>>SAS command.sas nameofdatafile.data

..

>To make it clear, my code like:
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>DATA data1;
>infile '/mnt/r1/BV2TC2/05044E263.csv'
>         DLM = ','
>         LRECL=1000 /*logical record length set longer than 256 by
>default*/
>         FIRSTOBS = 17
>         OBS =80
>         ;

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