Date:         Fri, 5 Aug 2005 14:05:11 -0400
Reply-To:     "Fehd, Ronald J" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
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From:         "Fehd, Ronald J" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
Subject:      Re: assign filref to the currently running file
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> From: Philip Primak
> I have to assign filref to the file I am currently running:
>
> filename in "nowrun.sas";
>
> The problem is that I have to specify the filename explicitly. I am
> looking a way to assign this file name dynamically (for example for
> current directory I could use "." instead of spelling out directory
> name).

in batch you can find the filename in the sysin command line parameter:
%Put SysIn<%sysfunc(getoption(SysIn))>;

so your filename becomes:

filename in "%sysfunc(getoption(SysIn))";

then what are you going to do?
read data from within the program
with the program.

I'm having trouble keeping up with the self-referencing jokes today:

There was a penguin talking to himself
-- or his image in the mirror --
standing on an ice-flow asking ...

Ron Fehd  the macro maven  CDC Atlanta GA USA RJF2 at cdc dot gov