topic Re: ERROR 180-322: Statement is not valid or it is used out of proper order. in SAS Programming

ERROR 180-322: Statement is not valid or it is used out of proper order.

Orongo — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 18:16:14 GMT

Hi, I'm a beginner in SAS and have an excercise to read in data and then use the means to print analysis. But I get the error message "Statement is not valid or it is used out of proper order." My data table is [id, kon, lon, atid]

 19     K      7150      50
 26     K     12300     100
 12     K      6400      50
 10     K      5650      50
  9     K     17600     100
 11     K     16200     100
  3     K     12600     100
 16     K     16900     100
 25     K     13700     100
 22     K      9900     100
  6     K      8900      50
  7     K     10700     100
 24     K     13800     100
  8     K     13100     100
 17     K     15400     100
  2     K     14100     100
 18     K     16100     100
  4     K     19700     100
 15     K     11500     100

and the code is

data ekon;
	infile '/folders/myfolders/ekon-win.txt';
	input id kon $ lon atid; 
	run;

proc sort data=ekon; by kon id;	
	proc print data=ekon;
	run;

proc means data=ekon maxdec=0;
	var lon atid;
	class kon;
	title 'Means ekon';
	run;

SAS complaints about the line "var lon atid", what am I not seeing?

Re: ERROR 180-322: Statement is not valid or it is used out of proper order.

FreelanceReinh — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 18:38:18 GMT

Hi Orongo,

Good news: There is no syntax error in the code you've posted.

I would simply resubmit this code. If the error still occurs, please post the log.

Re: ERROR 180-322: Statement is not valid or it is used out of proper order.

Orongo — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 19:13:45 GMT

Glad to read that I haven't gotten blind

I shifted arounf the code in the program and it now works! Thanks for the help Merry Xmas!