topic Invalid Logical Name in SAS Programming

Invalid Logical Name

sambasiva_ravuri_tcs_com — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:34:17 GMT

Hi All,

Am executing the below program in UNIX SAS and am while executing this program in UNIX, am encountering error like "Invalid Logical Name". I think this is related to file name statement. Please correct me what exactly am missing here ? Appreciate for help.

options obs=max compress=yes;

libname a "/project1/one/d071212";

filename a.cust1 pipe "gunzip -c /root/share/file1..GZ";

data a.comp1;
infile a.cust1 missover lrecl=4000 recfm=f;
input

@1 CUSTOMER_NAME $EBCDIC22.
@23 CUSTOMER_ID $ebcdic10.

Regards,

S Ravuri.

Re: Invalid Logical Name

ballardw — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:44:11 GMT

a.cust1 is not valid for a filename. letters, numbers and underscores only.

Re: Invalid Logical Name

sambasiva_ravuri_tcs_com — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:58:45 GMT

Thanks for quick response.

Please suggest me the valid file name , how can I use it ?

Regards,

S Ravuri.

Re: Invalid Logical Name

Linlin — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:06:29 GMT

changing a.cust1 to a_cust1

Re: Invalid Logical Name

Doc_Duke — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:57:06 GMT

The fileref follows the sas naming conventions. See the documentation for validvarname

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/64316/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000279245.htm

Re: Invalid Logical Name

cstead — Sat, 28 Oct 2017 23:35:13 GMT

Thank you ballardw