Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 18:25:40 +0100
Reply-To: Peter Crawford <peter.crawford@DB.COM>
Sender: "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From: Peter Crawford <peter.crawford@DB.COM>
Subject: Re: Reading Data from a Long List of Files
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try an infile statement like
infile 'your/path/file*' filename=filename .... ;
The global file name character '*' can be present like in DOS.
The infile option filename= can indicate the current file
(but predefine it with a long length).
Have a look in sas-l archives via www.sas-l.com
or the onlinedoc
good luck
Peter Crawford
Datum: 28/08/2002 16:59
An: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Antwort an: David Hopkins <dhopkins@EMAIL.ERS.USDA.GOV>
Betreff: Reading Data from a Long List of Files
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Dear SAS-L,
I wonder if anyone has done this before?.....
I have to read in data from a long list of text files. All of the text
files are in one subdirectory, all by themselves. I don't know the names of
the files ahead of time.
Can my SAS job read in a list of all the files, store the names in a SAS
dataset and then use that information to read in all the data from those
files?
How would I do that? Are there a couple of different ways to do this sort
of thing?
--David Hopkins
www.ers.usda.gov
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