https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Management/Appending-multiple-external-files/m-p/310852#M8911 <P>How can I append multiple external files in to one dataset at a time?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I have 50 external files named, apple.txt, orange.txt,.....jackfrt.txt. All have same attributes and columns, only data values different.</P> Fri, 11 Nov 2016 05:08:04 GMT 89sankar 2016-11-11T05:08:04Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Management/Appending-multiple-external-files/m-p/310852#M8911 <P>How can I append multiple external files in to one dataset at a time?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I have 50 external files named, apple.txt, orange.txt,.....jackfrt.txt. All have same attributes and columns, only data values different.</P> Fri, 11 Nov 2016 05:08:04 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Management/Appending-multiple-external-files/m-p/310852#M8911 89sankar 2016-11-11T05:08:04Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Management/Appending-multiple-external-files/m-p/310858#M8912 <P>Youve posted in the Data Management forum which is for SAS Data Integration and/or DataFlux. Are you using either of those products?&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>If base SAS this works :</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><A href="https://gist.github.com/statgeek/4c27ea9a7ed6d3528835" target="_blank">https://gist.github.com/statgeek/4c27ea9a7ed6d3528835</A></P> Fri, 11 Nov 2016 06:40:05 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Management/Appending-multiple-external-files/m-p/310858#M8912 Reeza 2016-11-11T06:40:05Z