Track value of same variable across multiple data steps

[JackieO]

One final reply to Tom,

I am almost done with my project(99% complete).  Wouldn't have been without your expert advise.  I have read more and learned more in the past two weeks than I have in 30 years.  I was a bit offended at first, after reading initial responses, but quickly found that you were absolutely right in your comments.  I am a better programmer for it. 

Thank you!

Jackie O

[Tom]

Great.

Hopefully you found the issue with your INFILE statement.

Note that the default display of dates by the ls command of Unix will display just the date for files that are over 6 months old.  But the full datetime stamp is stored and newer versions of the ls command will allow you display the full date time value.  Try this that works on RedHat Linux to get the value in the format that the SAS informat DATETIME can read.

/bin/ls -Al --time-style=+'%d%b%Y:%H:%M:%S'