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FILEEXIST

Verifies the existence of an external file by its physical name and returns a value

CMS specifics: filename

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Syntax

FILEEXIST(filename)

filename
is a fully qualified physical filename of the external file. The filename can be a character string in quotation marks, a macro variable, a DATA step variable, or a system variable.

Details

In the CMS environment, filename cannot be a fileref that was assigned by using an environment variable.
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