Date:         Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:33:36 -0500
Reply-To:     Joe Matise <snoopy369@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Joe Matise <snoopy369@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Referring Back to Filename
Comments: To: Brian Trautman <btrautman84@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To:  <201106161531.p5GAkj3h016393@willow.cc.uga.edu>
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Does the filename= option work for ftp files?  That's an option on the
INFILE statement that appends the incoming filename as a temporary variable.

-Joe

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Brian Trautman <btrautman84@gmail.com>wrote:

> I have the following SAS job that takes two different files and combines
> them
>
> filename myfile ftp ("'ABC123.LA'", "'ABC123.NY'")
>  binary host="host"
>  user=&user
>  pass=&pass
>  lrecl=249
> debug ;
>
> DATA IMPORT_FILE;
>
>    format STREET_ADDR            $30.;
>
>  INFILE myfile ;
>  INPUT
>      @001 STREET_ADDR                  $EBCDIC30.
>      @ ;
> RUN ;
>
> In the data step, is there a reasonably elegant way to determine if a
> record
> came from the NY or the LA file?  The only option I can think of is to
> import each file separately and then append them, but I'm hoping for a way
> to avoid resorting to that.
>
> Thank you!
>