Good day
I would like to automate Excel files that is stored on a server. This should import the files outomaticly every week. Is this posible and how will I go about to make this work?
The files is updated for each month. Ex
file_2017-03
file_2017-02
...
Regards
Start with creating SAS code that successfully imports one file.
For consistent results, I would strongly advise to not use the Excel file format, but a textual format like csv and a properly written data step, so that unexpected changes in the input data structure are caught at the earliest possible point of your ETL chain. .xls is crap as a data transfer format.
Then parameterize the infile name:
data _null_;
filedate = put(today(),yymmd7.);
call symputx('filedate',filedate);
run;
filename in "/path/file_&filedate..csv";
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