topic Re: "attempt to reference a page past end-of-file" Error in SAS Programming

"attempt to reference a page past end-of-file" Error

Phaneendra — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 16:56:50 GMT

I am getting the "attempt to reference a page past end-of-file" error when trying to read in a dataset using data step. Can anyone explain me as to what it is and how to overcome it?

Re: "attempt to reference a page past end-of-file" Error

ballardw — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 18:02:47 GMT

Post your code.

Basically you have an instruction that is trying to read from a file after encountering the end. There are a number of causes but your code will make it easier to address the specific cause(s).

Re: "attempt to reference a page past end-of-file" Error

Phaneendra — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 18:57:30 GMT

: Thanks for the quick reply.

it is a simple data step and is in the following format:

data xyz1;

set xyz;

where abc = ABC and XXX in ('a','b','c');

lmn = INPUT(prq,YYMMDD10.); /*Defining a new variable*/

run;

There are two different data sets for two different years; and in the program there are two data steps of same kind(as above), reading information from the two different sets. The program is working fine till the initial year dataset but is giving the above error when reading dataset of later year.

Re: "attempt to reference a page past end-of-file" Error

art297 — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 19:04:57 GMT

Have you simply run out of disk space?

Re: "attempt to reference a page past end-of-file" Error

Phaneendra — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 19:07:36 GMT

: No, there is no dearth of disk space.

Re: "attempt to reference a page past end-of-file" Error

art297 — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 19:13:01 GMT

Take a look at: 9374 - "Read-access violation" and "Referencing page on WORK._TFxxxx.ITEMSTOR"error messages appear

Could it be relevant to your situation?

Re: "attempt to reference a page past end-of-file" Error

UrvishShah — Wed, 25 May 2016 04:00:19 GMT

Can anyone please guide me what to do for the following error:

ERROR: Attempt to reference a page past end-of-file

I am facing this error whenever I am referencing the dataset...Because of this all my analysis gets affected...Please help me to resolve as early as possible...

Thanks in advance...

Re: "attempt to reference a page past end-of-file" Error

SergeR — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:26:00 GMT

I had the same situation and it was linked with the fact that data file modified time was different than index modified time...