Date:         Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:34:26 -0600
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Subject:      Re: External Files
Comments: To: Ken Barz <Ken.Barz@cpcmed.org>
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The PIPE access method is an easy to use method.  In the example the
data returned by DIR is the input for the data step.

filename ft16f001 pipe 'dir /s /b"*.sas"';
data work.filePath;
   infile ft16f001 truncover;
   input filepath $256.;;
   run;
proc print;
   run;


On Nov 29, 2007 11:51 AM, Ken Barz <Ken.Barz@cpcmed.org> wrote:
> For a given directory in Windows, how might I go about creating a
> dataset with the name of each file in the directory of a given extension
> (.xml)?
>
> Thanks
>