Dynamic flat file name as source

Hi All,
I working on ODI 11g 11.1.1.3 version.
I have Flat file say ABC01 as source, flat file was successfully load into target.
But next day new file say ABC02 with same structure was generate from client.
Every day new file is generate say ABC03, ABC04 and so on.
how to use this file to load data, without changing file name.
dynamically can it is possible.
Please give me suggestion.
Thanks in advance
Prashant

Hi Prashant,
You can achieve this by doing the following :
1. Create a variable Called FILE_NAME
2. Go to your file datastore and replace the Resource Name with variable #FILE_NAME. So you need to pass correct file name to the variable.
3. To get the filename into variable , you can look into the following thread
Read FileNames in Directory
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