Date:         Fri, 21 Dec 2001 13:09:26 -0700
Reply-To:     Jack Hamilton <JackHamilton@FIRSTHEALTH.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Jack Hamilton <JackHamilton@FIRSTHEALTH.COM>
Subject:      Re: Using sas to automate file editing.
Comments: To: seeliger@MERCURY.COR.EPA.GOV
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seeliger <seeliger@MERCURY.COR.EPA.GOV> wrote:

>However, Peter Crawford suggests that care and understanding are
>sufficient to make in-place editing possible.  The code below is more
or
>less along the lines he suggested, and it works (again, at least
locally).
>I'm not sure messing about with _infile_ is such a good idea, even if
it
>works, largely because I don't know quite how _infile_ is populated,
or
>what it might be used for internally; hence using it seems
'careless'.
>Any thoughts?

_INFILE_ in version 8 is different from _INFILE_ in version 6.  The V8
online doc says

   Like other SAS variables, you can update the _INFILE_ variable in an
assignment statement.

So you should be OK.



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JackHamilton@FirstHealth.com
Development Manager, Technical Group
METRICS Department, First Health
West Sacramento, California USA