Referencing External Files Directly | SAS 9.1.3 Language Reference: Concepts, Third Edition, Volumes 1 and 2

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:

Table 39.1: Referencing External Files Directly
External File Task	Tool	Example
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* ';

Table 39.1: Referencing External Files Directly

External File Task

Tool

Example

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    ';