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EinarRoed
Pyrite | Level 9

I have an ETL-job that runs each day. It creates a csv-file that needs to be deleted at the end of the job.

 

I can delete a specific file using this code:

 

data _null_;
	filename delfile 'c:\temp\file_2017_03_23.csv';
	rc = fdelete('delfile');
run;

However I don't want to indicate one specific file, because the filename will vary each day. 

 

I'd like to be able to do something like this: 

 

data _null_;
	filename delfile 'c:\temp\file_&datestamp..csv';
	rc = fdelete('delfile');
run;

/*the &datestamp would always refer to the current day*/

 

However, the filename statement doesn't accept macro variables.

 

Do you have any advice on how I can resolve this?

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