Date:         Fri, 17 Jan 1997 18:35:17 GMT
Reply-To:     Doug Nichols <dnichols@fhcrc.org>
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Subject:      filename ref to a variable....

Would someone send me an example on how to assign a filename
to the variable in a data step? The purpose of what I want is to
fille the file with the list of classes the teacher is teaching and
have the file contain a list of classes.
ie:
   say jones is teaching precalculus, calculus 124 and multivaried calculus
   then h:\classes\jones contains:
        precalculus
        calculus 124
        multivaried calculus
 
something like this seems reasonable but filename doesn't like "||"
 
ie:
  data _null_;
     set temp(keep=name class);
     by name;
     if first.name then do;
       filename nfile "h:\classes\"||name;
       file nfile lrecl=255;
       end;
    put class;
    run;
 
thanks for your input!!!
 
dn
 
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Douglas Nichols                        dnichols@fhcrc.org
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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
National Wilms Tumor Study Group
Seattle, WA
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