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The code included in this note generates different results in SAS 9.2 than it did in previous releases. Development was asked to change some messages to make them more accurate, and this was one of the changes that was made. The actual message change is that "filename" is returned now rather than "file name". See the Full Code, and Results/Output tab for the code and output.

Operating System and Release Information

data fileatt;                                  
   filename mytest "C:\temp\test.txt";         
   fid=fopen("mytest");                        
   put "File id is: " fid=;                    
   optname=foptname(fid,1);                    
   put optname=;                               
 rc=fclose(fid);                               
run;                                           
                                               

SAS 9.1.3 : 
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17   data fileatt;
18      filename mytest "C:\temp\test.txt";
19      fid=fopen("mytest");
20      put "File id is: " fid=;
21      optname=foptname(fid,1);
22      put optname=;
23    rc=fclose(fid);
24   run;

File id is: fid=1
optname=File Name
NOTE: The data set WORK.FILEATT has 1 observations and 3 variables.
NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):
      real time           0.01 seconds
      cpu time            0.01 seconds



SAS 9.2 :
----------------------------------------------------
9    data fileatt;
10      filename mytest "C:\temp\test.txt";
11      fid=fopen("mytest");
12      put "File id is: " fid=;
13      optname=foptname(fid,1);
14      put optname=;
15    rc=fclose(fid);
16   run;

File id is: fid=1
optname=Filename
NOTE: The data set WORK.FILEATT has 1 observations and 3 variables.
NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):
      real time           0.04 seconds
      cpu time            0.03 seconds