Hey. I have similar problems. But instead of large number of sheets, I have about ten thousand files. What can I do?
Plz help me with it.
Alex,
Yuo get a list of file names to iterate over, you can use a filename pipe ..... to get a list of files.
Then iterate over Peter's code above to read the files if they are spreadsheets. If not spreadsheets, then you might have to build your own code to handle reading the data.
I am attaching a paper I presented a couple of years ago which addresses this problem.
Larry
I meant to add a liitle sample code.
Assuming windows OS, this code will be a data set with list of filenames in a directory
filename my_files pipe 'dir /b c:\my_directory' ;
data file_list ;
infile my_files ;
input file_name ;
run ;
Thank you Larry
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