To reference a file directly in a SAS statement or command, specify in quotation marks its physical name, which is the name by which the operating environment recognizes it, as shown in the following table:
External File Task | Tool | Example |
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Specify the file that contains input data. | INFILE | data weight; infile ' input-file '; input idno $ week1 week16; loss=week1-week16; |
Identify the file that the PUT statement writes to. | FILE | file ' output-file '; if loss ge 5 and loss le 9 then put idno loss 'AWARD STATUS=3'; else if loss ge 10 and loss le 14 then put idno loss 'AWARD STATUS=2'; else if loss ge 15 then put idno loss 'AWARD STATUS=1'; run; |
Bring statements or raw data from another file into your SAS job and execute them. | %INCLUDE | %include ' source-file '; |