Date:         Fri, 17 Jan 1997 16:20:33 PST
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From:         TWB2%Rates%FAR@GO50.COMP.PGE.COM
Subject:      Re: filename ref to a variable....
Comments: To: dnichols@fhcrc.org

Crack the V6 Language Reference and look at the FILE statement.  One of the
optional parms is FILEVAR or FILENAME.  Whichever it is, you set it to the name
of a variable whose value is the name of the desired output file.  Build
the value of this variable in an assignment statement, so you get code like:
 
   SOMENAME='H:\CLASSES\'||TRIM(TEACH);
   FILE DUMMYVAL FILEVAR=SOMENAME;
   PUT CLASS;
 
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Sent by:Undetermined origin c/o LISTSERV maintainer <owner-LISTSERV
 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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