topic Re: ERROR 180-322 During Reading Raw Data Files in SAS Procedures

ERROR 180-322 During Reading Raw Data Files

cathychen0615 — Sat, 04 Apr 2015 04:24:18 GMT

Dear all,

I am a very beginner of a SAS self learner. I have used libname to define the Practice library in SAS studio and tried to read a txt file saved in drive E: with following statements. However I got the error message as below:

%let path=E:\SAS\DA practice data - Original

data Practice.b_sales;

infile "&path/b_sales.txt" dlm=' ';

input purchase age gender $ income $;

run;

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

Anyone could help me explain what's wrong and how I can correct it?

Thank you very much!

Cathy

Re: ERROR 180-322 During Reading Raw Data Files

SASKiwi — Sat, 04 Apr 2015 05:54:49 GMT

Your %LET statement appears to be missing a semicolon. This means that the first statement in your program is:

%let path=E:\SAS\DA practice data - Original data Practice.b_sales;

I suspect it is your INFILE statement that is getting the 180 error as it doesn't have a preceding DATA statement as it has become part of the text in your %LET statement.

Re: ERROR 180-322 During Reading Raw Data Files

Ksharp — Sat, 04 Apr 2015 05:59:16 GMT

Your file separator is different .

E:\SAS\DA --> is \

"&path/b_sales.txt" --> is /

That is the reason why SAS complain it .

Xia Keshan

Re: ERROR 180-322 During Reading Raw Data Files

cathychen0615 — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 04:14:49 GMT

Thank you very much for your help!

Re: ERROR 180-322 During Reading Raw Data Files

cathychen0615 — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 04:15:53 GMT

Hello Xia,

Thank you very much for your great help!