ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: a name, a quoted string, ;, CUROBS, END

[GN0001]

Hello team,

I run a program and I get this error. The datasets are out and they are correct.

mbcde is a libray name:

NOTE: Line generated by the macro variable "ABC_FILE".
767         mbcde.
            ______
            22
            201




ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: a name, a quoted string, ;, CUROBS, END, INDSNAME, KEY, KEYRESET, KEYS, 
              NOBS, OPEN, POINT, _DATA_, _LAST_, _NULL_.  

ERROR 201-322: The option is not recognized and will be ignored.

I appreciate any resposne.

blue blue

[Tom]

You haven't really shown enough of the log to tell what you run.  

For example it seems to say you expanded the macro variable ABC_FILE, but you don't show the SAS code you submitted that would have expanded that macro variable.

One thing to check for is macro quoting. That can sometimes confuse the hand off of code generated by the macro processor to the SAS complier to interpret. 

For example if you have a macro variable named LIBREF and another named DATASET and want to use them to generate a two level name, like:

&libref..&dataset

You might need to add %UNQUOTE() around the whole thing so the macro process sends the result to SAS as one token so it knows should treat it as a single two level name and not two separate strings.

proc print data=%unquote(&libref..&dataset) ;
run;

[ballardw]

If you macro variable is used on a SET statement then that is likely to be a LIBRARY, or treated as such but is missing the actual data set name.

So how you make &ABC_FILE needs to be examined.

If you want help, then provide the entire code and best with some example data.

[PaigeMiller]

@GN0001 we need the ENTIRE log for this DATA step, not parts of it. From now on, in every situation where you have an error in the log, show us the ENTIRE log for the step with the error.