Date:         Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:58:00 -0600
Reply-To:     Suppression@MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Edgar Sanchez <Suppression@MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU>
Subject:      Is there a way to automate filename changes
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Greetings,

I am appealing to those more knowledgeable than I in SAS for some help. In my
sas code i am doing a number of replications that call on 10 different
datasets. for example I need to input

%let respdat='D:\my docs\UT Documents\PhD & MA\PhD\Dissertation SAS
Docs\CATs\Response files\gpc100_6.dat';
                        /*path for examinees' responses(resp)*/

And I need to output the results for that dataset to:

%let dvfile='D:\my docs\UT Documents\PhD & MA\PhD\Dissertation SAS
Docs\CATs\RWi1\9RWi1dv100_6.uni';
                        /*output path for dep vars*/
%let ncfile='D:\my docs\UT Documents\PhD & MA\PhD\Dissertation SAS
Docs\CATs\RWi1\9RWi1dnc100_6.uni';
                        /*output path for nonconvergent cases*/

So you can see that I my input and output are marked as “…_6.*” right now I am
manually changing these three lines for every replication. Ive done 70 of these
conditions manually but I still have 210 to go. So my hope is that there is a
way to automate this process. As I am good with basic sas code but not very
complex code I have not found a way to do this (assuming it can be done). Any
ideas on this would be greatly appreciated.


Edgar Sanchez