Referencing External Files Directly

To reference a file directly in a SAS statement or command, specify in quotation marks its physical name, which is the name by which the operating environment recognizes it, as shown in the following table:
Referencing External Files Directly
External File Task
Tool
Example
Specify the file that contains input data.
INFILE 
data weight;
   infile 'input-file';
   input idno $ week1 week16;
   loss=week1-week16;
Identify the file that the PUT statement writes to.
FILE 
file 'output-file ';
if loss ge 5 and loss le 9 then
      put idno loss 'AWARD STATUS=3';
   else if loss ge 10 and loss le 14 then
      put idno loss 'AWARD STATUS=2';
   else if loss ge 15 then
      put idno loss 'AWARD STATUS=1';
run;
Bring statements or raw data from another file into your SAS job and execute them.
%INCLUDE 
%include 'source-file';
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