I've used this wildcard technique. Recently had a bit of trouble though when the filenames had no extension. To get SAS to process the files, I ended up renaming them ("foo1" became "foo1.dat" etc.). This was using SAS 6.12 TS020 and Win 95.

> From: Peter Crawford <peter.crawford@DB.COM> > > suppose the filevar option gets a bit top heavy (it is quite memory > intensive when you have lots of datasets) > > just try global naming (something like) > infile 'my*.txt' truncover file=filenam; > > or where you already have the meta data of the physical names required, > in a sas data set, populate a macro variable with the names wanted using > sql code like (untested!) > > proc sql noprint; > select distinct quote( physName ) into :wantname separated by ' ' > from meta.data /* or which-ever */ > where <it is really wanted>; > quit; > > then your infile statement might be > infile ( &wantname ) truncover filename = filenam > ls=10000 /* larger than the largest */ ; > > the infile option FileName= allows you to know from which text file the > infile is reading at run time.