topic Re: Infile Statment Help in SAS Programming

Infile Statment Help

Nikhil_1393 — Tue, 01 May 2018 06:02:23 GMT

DATA MYDATA;
INFILE 'E:\SASUniversityEdition\myfolders\Essentials\EXAMPLE.CSV' DLM=',' FIRSTOBS=2 OBS=11;
INPUT GROUP $ AGE TIME1 TIME2 TIME3 Time4 SOCIO;
PROC PRINT DATA=MYDATA;
RUN;

After running this my SAS is showing that the physical file does not exist, Although the file is there at the specified location in INFILE statement.Can anybody help me with this.....!

Re: Infile Statment Help

Shmuel — Tue, 01 May 2018 06:08:16 GMT

TRY

INFILE 'myfolders\Essentials\EXAMPLE.CSV' DLM=',' FIRSTOBS=2 OBS=11;

Re: Infile Statment Help

Nikhil_1393 — Tue, 01 May 2018 06:14:11 GMT

It still is not working......!

Re: Infile Statment Help

JChambo — Tue, 01 May 2018 06:28:43 GMT

Do you connect to a server to run sas programs? It looks like you might, and if that is the case then the file path needs to be correct from the perspective of the server, not your own computer.

You would need to copy the input file from your computer to a shared drive or to the server itself. If you access a shared drive through a drive letter (eg. S:\ drive) then the server would need to have the exact same drive letter setup. If the server does not, you'll need to get the UNC path to the shared drive.

Re: Infile Statment Help

Kurt_Bremser — Tue, 01 May 2018 08:29:25 GMT

It looks like you are using University Edition. In this case, the filename should be

infile '/folders/myfolder/Essentials/EXAMPLE.CSV' dlm=',' firstobs=2 obs=11;

Note that the underlying Linux of UE is case sensitive where filenames are concerned, so upper/lowercase needs to match exactly.