The following SAS technical support note/document should provide you guidance with using FILENAME and PIPE to read your directory/file information and then process the file list individually with your own DATA/PROC step(s), as needed.

Sincerely,

Scott Barry SBBWorks, Inc.

http://support.sas.com/techsup/technote/ts581.html

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Date: Sat, Jun 24 2006 11:01 am SUBJ: Reading multiple .RPT files from a Folder into SAS dataset

Hi I have a folder containg around 30 .RPT ASCII text files and I need to read all of them into a single SAS dataset. The .rpt files are huge and doing the Import individually might be a time consuming effort. Is there a method of reading files from a folder one by one and converting them into SAS datasets. Needed help from all of you if anyone has done something similar and how should one go about it . Thanks Nishant