Date:         Tue, 30 Dec 1997 10:40:31 -0500
Reply-To:     Soumen Mukherjee <SMukherjee@MAPSNET.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Soumen Mukherjee <SMukherjee@MAPSNET.COM>
Subject:      Re: for help
Comments: To: Changzhong Chen <cchen@HOHP.HARVARD.EDU>
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Use the keyword 'mod' in your file statement, e.g.
 
file 'existfl.dat' mod;
put ...;
 
 
Soumen.
 
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Changzhong Chen [SMTP:cchen@HOHP.HARVARD.EDU]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 1997 10:09 AM
> To:   SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU
> Subject:      for help
>
> Can anyone tell me how to put information to an exist file (append) in
> data step?
>
> for example:
> data _null_;
>  set data1;
>  file 'existfl.dat';
>  put @1 name @10 sex @15 age ... ;
> end;
> If the 'existfl.dat' is an exist file with the same structure as I
> listed in
> put statement. I want to put more lines to append it, how should I do?