using the good option with infile statement

[alepage]

A colleague suggested me to use the option dlm='|' to force to read the complete line.

But I wonder if there is a better option or combined options to do that .

Here's the code :

filename filelist pipe "find /folder1/sasdata/TestActuariat/ -type f ";
data fileslisting2;
length text $1000.;
infile filelist dlm='|';
input text;
run;

Here's an observation of fileslisting2;

Does the option dlm='|' is a good one or can we do better?

/folder1/sasdata/TestActuariat/Conversion Classic/Cycle3/gc/habi/gc_res_prop_jul2018.dpf.00010f97.0.1.spds9

Without the good option we get:

/folder1/sasdata/TestActuariat/Conversion

[SASJedi · Accepted solution]

If you want to get the entire content of the input buffer into the text variable, why not just use an assignment statement, like this:

filename filelist pipe "find /folder1/sasdata/TestActuariat/ -type f ";
data fileslisting2;
   length text $1000.;
   infile filelist;
   input;
   text=_infile_;
run;

This technique will capture all of the text, even if it contains a pipe character (|).