LIbname issue

[zfusfeld]

Hey all,

I am not really much of a macro user, and I am running into an issue. I am trying to specify my libname, and the path has the & character in it. my code is

libname CHWGrowth "Y:\Epi&Bio\CHW\ACES\ACE growth 5-site\data";

and it is spitting out an error at me which tells me that the apparent symbolic reference BIO is not resolved, presumably because it thinks I am referencing a macro. However, I am not referencing a macro. Normally, I would just change the folder name, but to make a long story short, I do not have the permissions required to alter the name of the folder. Does anyone have a work around so I can get SAS to recognize that I am not trying to call a macro?

[Tom · Accepted solution]

The macro processor ignores strings bounded by single quotes.

libname CHWGrowth 'Y:\Epi&Bio\CHW\ACES\ACE growth 5-site\data';