Date:         Wed, 12 Sep 2001 04:53:41 -0400
Reply-To:     Gerhard Hellriegel <ghellrieg@T-ONLINE.DE>
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From:         Gerhard Hellriegel <ghellrieg@T-ONLINE.DE>
Subject:      Re: newbie needs new direction
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On Tue, 11 Sep 2001 22:55:50 -0700, bobby <itp_group@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:

>The program i'm writing basically reads in selected records
>from a large csv file, does the nsame for 2 other files but
>with different queries. saving the values wanted as macro var's
>.
>
>i'm currently doing this repetitively in data steps but need a new
>direction as the program is getting real bad real quick.
>
>i have a Java programming background
>so suggestions on this... in V6.12


You shoulöd read the whole files in SAS datasets and then do your queries
on that with where:

data extract;
  set library.file1;
  where .....;
run;

The result is in "extract"