SAS file name saved in Lib

[Citrine10]

hi there

i am saving a file in a library and I want to datestamp it with todays date for e.g.

MyLib.Testfile_280921

how do I do that so that the date can be passed using todays date variable?

[PaigeMiller]

Let me point out that files named like MyLib.Testfile_280921 will not sort in any meaningful way, and if you change to YYMMDD, then the files will sort in chronological order.

So, you can use

data mylib.testifle_%sysfunc(today(),yymmddn8.);

[ChrisNZ]

@PaigeMiller is totally right: year first or nothing. 

[Kurt_Bremser]

What @ChrisNZ and @PaigeMiller said: YMD order, nothing else. And use 4-digit years, so 19991231 comes before 20000101.