topic Re: Error 24-2 in SAS Programming

Error 24-2

manya92 — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 14:52:32 GMT

I am getting this erorr ;

 1          OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;
 10         FILENAME _RTFOUT TEMP ENCODING='UTF-8';
                                           _
                                           24
                                            ___
                                            23
 ERROR: Error in the FILENAME statement.
 ERROR 24-2: Invalid value for the ENCODING option.
 
 ERROR 23-2: Invalid option name UTF.
 
 ERROR: Open code statement recursion detected.
 ERROR: Expected open parenthesis after macro function name not found.

My code runs once without any errors, and then when i run it again, it starts giving me this error and stops processing my request.

any suggestions on how to deal with this ?

Re: Error 24-2

VDD — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 14:58:47 GMT

have you tried:

changing: FILENAME _RTFOUT TEMP ENCODING='UTF-8';

to: FILENAME _RTFOUT TEMP ENCODING UTF8;

Re: Error 24-2

manya92 — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:32:06 GMT

ERROR: Expected open parenthesis after macro function name not found.

This is the error i get after i add the statement you recommended

Re: Error 24-2

ballardw — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 16:02:18 GMT

Some filename options are Operating system specific. Which OS are you running?

I do not get that error when running SAS 9.4m4 under Windows 10.

Re: Error 24-2

Kurt_Bremser — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 17:20:55 GMT

You have something unbalanced (parentheses, quotes) in your code that leaves the SAS interpreter in an unusable state. That's the #1 reason for the behaviour you describe.

Check your code for this (Maxim 2: read the log. Of the "successful" run).