topic ERROR 388-185: Expecting an arithmetic operator. in SAS Programming

ERROR 388-185: Expecting an arithmetic operator.

pbstubejunkie — Wed, 24 May 2017 22:44:31 GMT

data variables11 ;

set inlib.income ;

ESTINC= input(STATE MEN_INC WOM_INC, best.) ;

run ;

proc print data=inlib.income ;

var STATE MEN_INC WOM_INC ;

title 'ESTIMATED INCOME CHECK' ;

run ;

im getting the following error message

3585 data variables11 ;

3586 set inlib.income ;

3587 ESTINC= input(STATE MEN_INC WOM_INC, best.) ;

-------

388

202

ERROR 388-185: Expecting an arithmetic operator.

ERROR 202-322: The option or parameter is not recognized and will be ignored.

3588 run ;

NOTE: Character values have been converted to numeric values at the places given by:

(Line):(Column).

3587:19

NOTE: Numeric values have been converted to character values at the places given by:

(Line):(Column).

1:1

NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.

WARNING: The data set WORK.VARIABLES11 may be incomplete. When this step was stopped there were

0 observations and 4 variables.

WARNING: Data set WORK.VARIABLES11 was not replaced because this step was stopped.

NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):

real time 0.04 seconds

cpu time 0.00 seconds

Re: ERROR 388-185: Expecting an arithmetic operator.

Reeza — Wed, 24 May 2017 22:58:27 GMT

You've listed too many variables in the INPUT().

You can only process one variable at a time.

@pbstubejunkie wrote:

data variables11 ;

set inlib.income ;

ESTINC= input(STATE MEN_INC WOM_INC, best.) ;

run ;

proc print data=inlib.income ;

var STATE MEN_INC WOM_INC ;

title 'ESTIMATED INCOME CHECK' ;

run ;

im getting the following error message

3585 data variables11 ;

3586 set inlib.income ;

3587 ESTINC= input(STATE MEN_INC WOM_INC, best.) ;

-------

388

202

ERROR 388-185: Expecting an arithmetic operator.

ERROR 202-322: The option or parameter is not recognized and will be ignored.

3588 run ;

NOTE: Character values have been converted to numeric values at the places given by:

(Line):(Column).

3587:19

NOTE: Numeric values have been converted to character values at the places given by:

(Line):(Column).

1:1

NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.

WARNING: The data set WORK.VARIABLES11 may be incomplete. When this step was stopped there were

0 observations and 4 variables.

WARNING: Data set WORK.VARIABLES11 was not replaced because this step was stopped.

NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):

real time 0.04 seconds

cpu time 0.00 seconds

Re: ERROR 388-185: Expecting an arithmetic operator.

pbstubejunkie — Wed, 24 May 2017 23:04:40 GMT

Thank you!