Referencing Files in SAS Libraries (4)

Setting Up Your SAS Session

Referencing Files in SAS Libraries

Referencing Files in Other Formats

You can use the LIBNAME statement to reference not only SAS files but also files formatted by other software products, such as database management systems.

SAS software can write to or read from the files by means of the appropriate engine for that file type. For some file types, you need to tell SAS software which engine to use. For others, SAS software automatically chooses the appropriate engine.

A SAS engine is a set
of internal instructions
that SAS uses for
writing to and reading
from files in a SAS
library.
files, engines, and SAS libraries