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Setting Up Your SAS Session
Referencing Files in SAS Libraries


Specifying Two-Level Names

After you assign a libref, you specify it as the first element in the two-level name for a SAS file.


This example shows the
two-level name for a SAS
data set, Vsview, stored
in a SAS library assigned
the libref Clinic.

two-level name
 Clinic.Vsview


SAS data library, librefs, and filenames

For example, in order for the PRINT procedure to read Clinic.Vsview, you specify the two-level name of the file as follows:
     proc print data=clinic.vsview;
     run;

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