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NTVM
Calcite | Level 5

Hi

i receive every days a file with name: XXXX_YYYYMMDD.

How can i extract the YYYYMMDD to control if all my data have the same date.

I need to compare the date of input data with the date of title file.

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BrunoMueller
SAS Super FREQ

Hi NTVM

Please mark this discussion as answered, maybe also provide the approach you did take.

This will help others when searching for this.

thanks

Bruno

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yaswanthj
Calcite | Level 5

Can you please provide some examples. so that we can suggest you ....:)

NTVM
Calcite | Level 5

I have a folder with several files:

Garantees_20120730.txt

Financiero_20120730.txt

I need the date (20120730) to a new variable.

shivas
Pyrite | Level 9

Hi,

Try this..once you get your file name in the data set then you can compare with whatever values you want .hope it helps...

filename dir "F:\TD\test";

data work.dir;

             length name $100;

             d=dopen("dir");

             num=dnum(d);

             do i=1 to num;

                name=dread(d,i);

r=index(name,".txt");

dt=input(compress(name,,'kd'),yymmdd8.);

                    output;

                 end;

  format dt date9.;

  keep name dt;

  run;

Thanks,

Shiva

BrunoMueller
SAS Super FREQ
Hi

when reading from a text file one can use the FILENAME= option of the INFILE statement to get the name of the file being read. This can be very helpfull if you are reading several files with the same DATA Step.


See below for any example. The first DATA Step simply creates a test file.

filename myinput "!TEMP\Garantees_20120730.txt";

data _null_;
 
file myinput dlm=",";
 
do i = 1 to 10;
   
put i "20100730";
 
end;
run;


data someData;
  length
    _myFilename $
2048
    myFilename $
256
  ;
  infile myinput dlm="," filename=_myFilename;
  input
    line
    myDate :
anydtdte.
  ;
  myFilename = scan(_myFilename, -1, "\");

 
format
    myDate
date9.
  ;
run;
NTVM
Calcite | Level 5

it´s working...

thanks all.

BrunoMueller
SAS Super FREQ

Hi NTVM

Please mark this discussion as answered, maybe also provide the approach you did take.

This will help others when searching for this.

thanks

Bruno

Haikuo
Onyx | Level 15

Here is another approach using 'pipe':

filename fname pipe  'dir c:\test\*.txt /b/s';

data test;

infile fname;

input filename :&$100.;

new_var=substr(filename,prxmatch('/_\d{8}\./', filename)+1,8);

output;

run;

Haikuo

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