Generate a flat file from a SILC indicator dataset to be uploaded on Eurobase.

%silc_ffile_export(idsn, geo, years, idir=, ilib=, ofn=, odir=,

key=, headkeys=, prefkey=ILC, mode=RECORDS);

idsn : a SILC dataset;
geo : a list of countries or a geographical area; default: geo=EU28;
years : a list of year(s) of interest;
ilib : (option) name of the input library; by default, when not set, ilib=WORK;
idir : (option) name of the input directory; incompatible with ilib;
key : (option) name of the key used to indentified the indicator; when not passed, it is set to &idsn;
prefkey : (option) prefix string for the identification of the published dataset; it is used before the indicator key of the disseminated dataset; for instance, for an indicator named <IND> to be identified in Eurobase tree node as ILC_<IND>, prefkey should be set to ILC so that the field ID keys in the flat file will appear as:

`FIELDS=ILC_<IND>`

note the use of _EMPTY_ to set prefkey to a blank string; by default, it is set to: prefkey=ILC;

headkeys : (option) head keys (strings) used for the identification of the published dataset; for instance, for an indicator named <IND> to be identified in Eurobase tree node as SAS.ILC.<IND>, headkeys should be set to SAS ILC so that the field ID keys in the flat file will appear as:

`FIELDS=SAS,ILC,<IND>`

by default, it is not set: headkeys=;

ofn : (option) name of the output (text) file (without the txt extension); by default, when not set, ofn is built from the input name &idsn and the input year(s) &years;
odir : (option) name of the output directory; by default, odir=sysfunc(pathname(&ilib)).

Run %_example_silc_ffile_export for examples.

The indicator is "SILC-formatted" e.g. it is structured in such a way that it has/could have been created using the macro %silc_ind_create.