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Hello,
I am new to SAS and I have an issue:
I have a directory (C:/mydir/myfiles) where I have many csv files (the number is not constant).
I have to import these files and concatenate them (in no particular order), to get a final csv file. Note that the csv files have identical columns, data types etc.
Example:
myfile_V1.csv
myfile_V2.csv
myfile_V3.csv
myfile_V4.csv
myfile_V5.csv
....
The final concatenated file should be --> myfile_complete.csv
Any idea how do I proceed with this please in a way that I won't have to manually put the file names every time?
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Please have a look at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60244/is-there-replacement-for-cat-on-windows
Or do you need the data in sas? If this is the case, please find of the numerous threads dealing with reading multiple files.Hint the infile-statement allows something like C:/mydir/myfiles/*.csv ...
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I am using Unix, the directory name was just an example. I guess it caused some confusions.
My issues is, I don't know how to concatenate all these files into one single file without having to manually input the name of each file every time. (maybe a loop?)
For a first step, I have tried to read all the files in the directory and list them:
filename myfiles '/sasapp/Liv_Marketing/delsquad/bloc/in'; data filenames (keep=filename); dir= dopen('myfiles'); do file = 1 to dnum(dir); filename = dread(dir,file); output; end; rc= dclose(dir); run;
This gives me a list of all the files present in the directory.
Now I need to import all of them and concatenate them into one output file.
Thanks for your help
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Please pay attention to the hint from @andreas_lds , you don't need to specifically name each .csv file in your code. You don't even have to read the list of names in the folder.
Paige Miller