Date:         Tue, 6 Dec 2005 16:52:16 -0800
Reply-To:     David L Cassell <davidlcassell@MSN.COM>
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From:         David L Cassell <davidlcassell@MSN.COM>
Subject:      Re: fimename with space
In-Reply-To:  <200512062310.jB6M7eH7020379@mailgw.cc.uga.edu>
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Haili.Sun.Shen@GMAIL.COM wrote:
>Anybody has experience to read a filename with space inside it?  e.g.,
>file name is "abstract acs". I  tried to use quote with this file name
>but it won't work. thanks.
>
>data myfile;
>set abstract acs; (how to do it?)
>run;

Is this a flat file that you want to read into SAS?  If so, then you have to
learn the
difference between using SET to read SAS data sets and using INFILE and
INPUT
to read text files.  That's a pretty important difference.  Once you have
that down,
you can do something like this:


options validvarname=any;

data myfile;
  infile 'pathtofile\abstract acs';
  <whatever else you need ...>


HTH,
David
--
David L. Cassell
mathematical statistician
Design Pathways
3115 NW Norwood Pl.
Corvallis OR 97330

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