topic Re: How to create a SAS dataset with information from txt files in SAS Enterprise Guide

How to create a SAS dataset with information from txt files

Valesca_1012 — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 17:43:43 GMT

I have 3 .txt files and need create a SAS dataset with :
- a variable with datetime of the creating this files
- a variable with filename
- a variable with filesize
How can I do this ?

Example :

I have 3 files called : claims.txt, sales.txt and product.txt

I need a SAS dataset called CONTROL like this :

Name	Size	Datetime
Claims	446.335	10/19/2017 15:34:00
Sales	357.051	10/19/2017 15:34:00
Products	9.909.169	10/19/2017 15:34:00
Claims	447.698	10/20/2017 16:00:01
Sales	357.063	10/20/2017 16:00:01

This informations are about when the files were created and copied in the folder

Re: How to create a SAS dataset with information from txt files

TomKari — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 18:16:57 GMT

Look in the Base SAS Functions help information, the category of "External Files". SAS has functions that will let you retrieve all of this information, with examples in the help text.

Tom

Re: How to create a SAS dataset with information from txt files

ChrisHemedinger — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 18:22:47 GMT

There's a good example of using FINFO to retrieve these attributes -- it's in this SAS Note.

Re: How to create a SAS dataset with information from txt files

Reeza — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 18:56:18 GMT

And another option, which is the same as the suggestion yesterday, but here's an example.

https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/QA-Data-Set/m-p/404961

data meta;
    /*Source table mentioned already*/
    set sashelp.vtable;

    /*this limits the data sets in the list, you can remove it*/
    where memname in ('AIR', 'CARS', 'SHOES', 'BASEBALL', 'CLASS', 'FISH');

    /*variables your interested in keeping:
    data set name, created date, modificaiton date and filesize*/
    KEEP MEMNAME CRDATE MODDATE FILESIZE;
RUN;

*Display results;

Proc print data=meta;
run;a