topic Re: Filepatgh for lesson 2 in SAS Programming

Filepatgh for lesson 2

Shakhane — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 12:05:55 GMT

proc contents data="/folders/myfolders/epg194/data/storm_summary.sas7dat";

I am encountering this error, could you please lead me to the right direction:

1 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

73 proc contents data="/folders/myfolders/epg194/data/storm_summary.sas7dat";

ERROR: Extension for physical file name "/folders/myfolders/epg194/data/storm_summary.sas7dat" does not correspond to a valid

member type.

74 run;

NOTE: Statements not processed because of errors noted above.

NOTE: PROCEDURE CONTENTS used (Total process time):

real time 0.00 seconds

cpu time 0.00 seconds

NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.

76 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

Shmuel — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 13:43:26 GMT

For proc contents you need to supply a sas dataset name in a form of libname,dsname.

Try next code:

libname mydata "/folders/myfolders/epg194/data";

proc contents data=mydata.storm_summary; run;

Tom — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 13:49:13 GMT

The extension used by SAS for datasets is sas7bdat. You did not include the letter b. Is your file misnamed or is it just a typo in the program?

Shakhane — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 00:44:13 GMT

My apology, I skipped the setup instructions on the training lessons, thanks for your support. It is working now.

hak18 — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 13:56:47 GMT

You also can use the next :

%let path = /folders/myfolders/epg194/data/
proc contents data= "&path/storm_summary";
run;