SAS - Write filenames to a dataset, or to an external file?

Question

Is there a way, in SAS, to grab filenames (.txt files) from a directory (eg c:\\temp) and write them to a dataset? Or possibly to write them into a separate .txt. file?

I'm trying to find some examples online but haven't been able to locate anything.

Answer 1

The simplest way to do this is with a named pipe , which you can then read from.

Eg:

filename mydir pipe 'dir c:\temp\*.txt /b';
data mydata;
infile mydir lrecl=150 truncover;
input @1 line $150.;
run;