Date:         Fri, 20 Mar 1998 12:44:47 +0000
Reply-To:     Peter Crawford <Peter@CRAWFORDSOFTWARE.DEMON.CO.UK>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Peter Crawford <Peter@CRAWFORDSOFTWARE.DEMON.CO.UK>
Organization: Crawford Software Consultancy Limited
Subject:      Re: Appending data from several files to one dataset ??

In article <01bd53eb$86849de0$LocalHost@pc433>, PMG <pmg@post5.tele.dk>
writes
>I've made a macro and program as following:
>
>%macro ReadFile(FileName, special);
>  filename alllogs ("&FileName");
>  data tmp1;
>    input id text;
>    special = &special;
>  run;
>%mend;
>
>ReadFile("file1.txt", 10);
>ReadFile("file2.txt", 20);
>......... and so on !!
>
>The structure of the input-files are the same, and I want all the data in
>ONE dataset. But each time I call the macro, it deletes the contents,
>instead of appending to the dataset. How can I change that behavior ????
>
>:-) Thomas Kongstad
Thomas,
 
> Did the FILEVAR option of the InFILE statement not work for this ?
>
> It should achieve what you need in just one data step with no macros !
>
>
 
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Peter Crawford