Using a FILENAME Statement
Overview
You already know that you can use
a FILENAME statement to associate a fileref with a single raw data
file. You can also use a FILENAME statement to concatenate raw data
files by assigning a single fileref to the raw data files that you
want to combine.
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General form, FILENAME
statement:
FILENAME fileref ('external-file1' 'external-file2'
...'external-filen');
fileref
is any SAS name that
is eight characters or fewer.
external-file
is the physical name
of an external file. The physical name is the name that is recognized
by the operating environment.
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CAUTION:
All of the file specifications
must be enclosed in one set of parentheses.
When the fileref ...
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