Detecting an unknown file

[bibbnd]

I need to find a way to read a group of files automatically in a shared folder.  I do not know the file names nor how many at anytime. The file names change all the time. 

I would like to create a program that will scan the folder for any files and read them into a dataset. 

I was thinking maybe file exist but i am really not sure where to start

[andreas_lds]

The steps depend on structure and file-type: if you have text-files with the same structure you can use the infile-statement with wildcard to read all files at once. So what do you have exactly?

[PhilC]

Example 12: "Reading All File Members of a Directory" | SAS Help Center: INFILE Statement