Filepatgh for lesson 2

[Shakhane]

proc contents data="/folders/myfolders/epg194/data/storm_summary.sas7dat";

I am encountering this error, could you please lead me to the right direction:

1          OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

72        

73         proc contents data="/folders/myfolders/epg194/data/storm_summary.sas7dat";

ERROR: Extension for physical file name "/folders/myfolders/epg194/data/storm_summary.sas7dat" does not correspond to a valid

        member type.

74         run;

NOTE: Statements not processed because of errors noted above.

NOTE: PROCEDURE CONTENTS used (Total process time):

       real time           0.00 seconds

       cpu time            0.00 seconds

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

75        

76         OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

[Shmuel]

For proc contents you need to supply a sas dataset name in a form of libname,dsname.

Try next code:

libname mydata "/folders/myfolders/epg194/data";

proc contents data=mydata.storm_summary; run;

[Tom]

The extension used by SAS for datasets is sas7bdat.  You did not include the letter b.  Is your file misnamed or is it just a typo in the program?

[Shakhane]

My apology, I skipped the setup instructions on the training lessons, thanks for your support. It is working now.

[hak18]

You also can use the next :

%let path = /folders/myfolders/epg194/data/
proc contents data= "&path/storm_summary";
run;