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sasemp999
Calcite | Level 5

1.i am having sas 8.2 version.
2.proc import is not supporting in our servers.
3.i tried the below code for importing
4.input file----csv file
5.variable name length is more than -32 chars

My Code:


OPTIONS VALIDVARNAME=ANY;
filename read 'path/file.csv';
data new;
infile read firstobs=2;
input
'EVENT OUTCOME DATE' N
'EVENT REPORTED DAT' N
-
-
;
run;

i am getting errors:

'subject PROTOCAL NAME' N

           ___________________________
           22
           76
ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: a name, arrayname, #, (, +, /, //, ;, @, @@. 

ERROR 76-322: Syntax error, statement will be ignored.

8          'EVENT OUTCOME DATE' N

9          'EVENT REPORTED DATE' N

10         'var name ' N

12         'var name ' N

13         ' var name' N

NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.
NOTE: SAS set option OBS=0 and will continue to check statements. This may cause NOTE: No observations in data set.
WARNING: The data set WORK.NEW may be incomplete.  When this step was stopped there were 0 observations and 0 variables.
NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):
      real time           0.00 seconds
      cpu time            0.02 seconds


plese help me.............

1 REPLY 1
FloydNevseta
Pyrite | Level 9

When using name literals, there cannot be a space between the closing quote and the letter N. Delete the spaces and it should work.

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