topic Re: How do you read a sas7bdat file into SAS studio%3F in New SAS User

How do you read a sas7bdat file into SAS studio%3F

CYC85249 — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 23:12:33 GMT

How do you read a sas7bdat file into SAS studio?

I am a new user for SAS studio.

I upload a sas7bdat under user ->my folder. the loacation of the file is under "/Users/xxx/My Folder"

Did I import the file to the wrong location so I can not read it?

Re: How do you read a sas7bdat file into SAS studio%3F

SASKiwi — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:57:50 GMT

A SAS7BDAT file is a SAS dataset. Allocating a LIBNAME statement to "/Users/xxx/My Folder" should be all you need to do to read the dataset. Run this to see if you can successfully read it:

libname MyLibref "/Users/xxx/My Folder";
proc datasets library = MyLibref;
  contents data = mysasfile;
run;
quit;

NB: If your SAS session runs on Unix/Linux folder names are case sensitive so case must match.

Re: How do you read a sas7bdat file into SAS studio%3F

Tom — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 02:27:17 GMT

And SAS will only look for files using all lowercase letters. So if your dataset is named MyData then the file needs to be named mydata.sas7bdat.