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

[goliPSU]

I have the following commands in SAS:

F_sectors = {'F01000', 'F02000', 'F03000', 'F04000', 'F06C00', 'F06I00','F07C00', 'F07I00', 'F08C00', 'F08I00', 'F09C00', 'F09I00'};

pce_sector = {'F01000'};

and runnig them I get the following error:

124   F_sectors = {'F01000', 'F02000', 'F03000', 'F04000', 'F06C00', 'F06I00','F07C00',

      ---------

      180

124! 'F07I00', 'F08C00', 'F08I00', 'F09C00', 'F09I00'};

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

125

126   pce_sector = {'F01000'};

      ----------

      180

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

[ballardw]

Without all of the code it's hard to diagnose but this is a common error if the previous statement does not end with a semicolon or since you have lot's of strings, an unclosed string or possibly unbalance " and ' for a string.

[Hutch_sas · Accepted solution]

Are these IML statments? Could it be that somehow you are not in IML, that either you have neglected to do a proc iml; statement or maybe you quit the IML proc?

[goliPSU]

Thank you very much, that was the issue of not having the IML there.

[EyalGonen]

You can make this work without explicitly writing PROC IML in your code if you use SAS IML Studio http://support.sas.com/rnd/app/studio/studio.html