topic Import filename from the local directory in SAS Programming

Import filename from the local directory

radha009 — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 14:18:37 GMT

i want to call the fill name from the local directory. my file name will be month.xlsx. month name will be to the current month filename.

How can i include in the proc import the dynamic filename.

Re: Import filename from the local directory

andreas_lds — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 14:25:17 GMT

If sas is not running locally, you can't access local files.

Re: Import filename from the local directory

radha009 — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 14:41:02 GMT

my sas is running locally. i have full path in the Proc import data file. i have to change every month my script to the change the file name to generate a reprot.i am looking something that look for the filename from the folder.

Re: Import filename from the local directory

andreas_lds — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 14:51:31 GMT

Are you using display manager or enterprise guide? With EG you could add a prompt allowing you to select the file to import. The name can be computed if rules exist. If you just want the latest file in a folder, using cmd/powershell to get the filename is recommended, because, compared to a full-implementation in sas, less code is required. If you want / have to do it in sas have a look at the functions dopen, dnum, dread, fopen, finfo ...

Re: Import filename from the local directory

Reeza — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 15:07:45 GMT

@radha009 wrote:

i want to call the fill name from the local directory. my file name will be month.xlsx. month name will be to the current month filename.

How can i include in the proc import the dynamic filename.

So if you ran it now would you expect to find February.xlsx or March.xlsx

The easiest way seems to use a macro variable.

%let month = %sysfunc(today(), monname20.);
%put &month.;