topic Re: library base question in SAS Programming

library base question

ganeshsas764 — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 11:43:52 GMT

hi friends,

i have one dout ,

how to import the today file(txt timestap file) from library(different file are there) to sas software,

Re: library base question

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 11:48:30 GMT

So you have a text file, and you want to import it into a dataset?

And what exactly is your problem?

Re: library base question

RW9 — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 12:33:43 GMT

data want;
  infile "<directory>\<filename>.txt";
  input ...;
run;

Re: library base question

ganeshsas764 — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 12:42:41 GMT

yes ,

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Re: library base question

ganeshsas764 — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 12:44:32 GMT

some X-ayhave different files,but i am impoerting only today file to create create sas dataset

Re: library base question

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 12:48:52 GMT

Sorry, but I only speak German and English. I can't make any sense of your writing.

@ganeshsas764 wrote:

some X-ayhave different files,but i am impoerting only today file to create create sas dataset

Re: library base question

ballardw — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 14:36:46 GMT

Please show the exact name of the file.

If you are trying to use a SAS function to determine a value for TODAY to build the correct file name it is possible but we would need to see what the file name looks like to make useable suggestions.

Another optiom though likely more complicated is to use the SAS external file functions to open a directory (DOPEN), search for properties (Doptnum ), identify the property that the operating system uses to specify creation date (Doptname) and find files with the desired date (Dread) and likely a few more steps.