Opening SAS® Data Files 4: Reference the File Directly in Your Code

Another simple way to access a SAS data file from within the SAS environment is to refer to the its location directly in your program code. While this method has limited utility if you plan on sharing your code with others, it's a convenient alternative means for reading your data into SAS. SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. ® indicates USA registration.

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• Analytic Programming
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[IronChefWannabe]

great video

I know MS Access and MS Excel really well. I just started learning SAS and these are really good.

[donkeyboyzs]

Hi Adam,

thanks for putting up all these SAS tutorials. any chance you can upload all those programming/data manipulation tutorials for SAS, like arrays, do loops, maybe some stats stuff. that would be great! thanks!