Reading the number of records in a INPUT file

[FriedEgg]

Here is another way to do this, will only work on *nix machines or under windows with cygwin, but per my testing is a slightly faster method.

filename cntr04p pipe "wc -l /usr/share/dict/words";

data _null_;

  infile cntr04p;

  input cntr04p filename $;

call symputx('cntr04p',cntr04p);

run;