Summary
Statements
DATA <libref.>SAS-data-set;
tells SAS to begin
creating a SAS data set. If you omit the libref, then SAS creates
a temporary SAS data set. (SAS attaches the libref WORK for its internal
processing.) If you give a previously defined libref as the first
level of the name, then SAS stores the data set permanently in the
library referenced by the libref. A SAS program or a portion of a
program that begins with a DATA statement and ends with a RUN statement,
another DATA statement, or a PROC statement is called a DATA step.
FILENAME fileref 'your-input-or-output-file';
associates a fileref
with an external file. Enclose the name of the external file in quotation
marks.
INFILE fileref | 'your-input-file';
identifies ...
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