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Using a FILENAME Statement
You can use a FILENAME
statement to concatenate raw data files by assigning a single fileref
to the raw data files that you want to combine. When the fileref is
specified in an INFILE statement, each raw data file that has been
referenced can be sequentially read into a data set using an INPUT
statement.
Using an INFILE Statement
You can make the process
of concatenating raw data files more flexible by using an INFILE statement
with the FILEVAR= option. The FILEVAR= option enables you to dynamically
change the currently opened input file to a new input file. When the
INFILE statement executes, it reads from the file that the FILEVAR=
variable specifies.
In some cases, you might need to use the ...
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