topic Re: Opening an Excel workbook using LIBNAME in SAS Programming

Opening an Excel workbook using LIBNAME

JohnSAScom — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 18:53:21 GMT

Hi,

LIBNAME MyLibRef EXCEL "C:\MYPATH\MYEXCEL.XLS" ;

gives me errors. Any ideas on what's wrong?

I'm using SAS 9.3 and Excel 2013.

Re: Opening an Excel workbook using LIBNAME

ballardw — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 19:00:20 GMT

Post the text of the error.

There can be many issues: incorrect path, incorrect filename, file type doesn't match expectation of the engine (xls and xlsx are NOT the same file format), whether you have access to PC Files licensed, system permissions, and that's just a start.

Re: Opening an Excel workbook using LIBNAME

JohnSAScom — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 20:24:11 GMT

Hi,

I should have specified PCFILES as the engine, not EXCEL:

This works:

LIBNAME MyLibRef PCFILES "C:\MYPATH\MYEXCEL.XLS" ;

Thank you, I appreciate your help.

Re: Opening an Excel workbook using LIBNAME

nketata — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 19:18:46 GMT

This always works

libname HELLO pcfiles path = "C:\TEMP\myfile.xlsx" textsize = 32767 ;

DATA MYFILE;

set HELLO.'MYSHEET$'n;

run; libname HELLO clear;