topic Help with 'infile' in SAS university in SAS Programming

Help with 'infile' in SAS university

concernedRock — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 23:20:58 GMT

Hi all!

I've been trying to open a file for the past hour, and it's driving me crazy. I have a file called 'temp3.txt' with the address

'C:\SASUniversityEdition\myfolders\temp3.txt'

and I tried to use the inline command to open this in SAS UE with the '/folders/myfolders/...' path:

DATA temp3;
	infile '/folders/myfolders/temp3.txt';
	input subj 1-4 gender 6 height 8-9 weight 11-13;
RUN;
PROC PRINT data = temp3;
	title 'Output dataset: TEMP3';
RUN;

But I when I run this code, I get an error message saying

1 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

56 DATA temp3;

57 infile '/folders/myfolders/temp3.txt';

58 input subj 1-4 gender 6 height 8-9 weight 11-13;

59 RUN;

ERROR: Physical file does not exist, /folders/myfolders/temp3.txt.

What am I doing wrong?

Re: Help with 'infile' in SAS university

Reeza — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 23:37:04 GMT

1. Double check that your myfolders is set up properly. If the following runs correctly it is.

Libname test '/folders/myfolders'

Re: Help with 'infile' in SAS university

Reeza — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 23:38:00 GMT

2. Make sure your file is properly referenced - it is case sensitive.

Sorry about two posts. Slight issue posting

Re: Help with 'infile' in SAS university

concernedRock — Sat, 09 Apr 2016 00:01:06 GMT

Thank you for the reply. When I run your code, it does give me an error saying "Libref TEST is not assigned".

However, I checked my virtual machine setting:

1) Shared Folders is set to "Enabled", and

2) The host path "C:\SASUniversityEdition\myfolders" is added under the name "myfolders" (in "Folder sharing" tab).

Yet it still does not work. Do you think I should just re-install the program?

Re: Help with 'infile' in SAS university

Reeza — Sat, 09 Apr 2016 00:15:37 GMT

Probably don't need to reinstall. Myfolders is all lower case? Set up in VM?

Try restarting VM?

Re: Help with 'infile' in SAS university

concernedRock — Sat, 09 Apr 2016 00:24:25 GMT

It started working after I restarted the VM twice. Wow, thank you so much! 🙂