Macro SAS

[Tap222]

whay it showing error  with following code?

libname books "C:\books\datasets";
data book.ytdsales(label='Sales for 2014');
attrib section length=$30 label='Section'
booktitle length=$50 label='Title of Book'
author length=$50 label='First Author'
publisher length=$50 label='Publisher'

[RW9]

This has nothing to do with macro SAS.  The program is telling you that the path:

c:\books\datasets

Does not exist.  

This can mean you don't have a directory named that or SAS doesn't have access to it.

What software are you using, SAS UE version is mounted in a virtual image and you need to use Unix paths to certain areas to get data, you can't use local C drive.

[Shmuel]

1) There is no folder : C:\books\datasets - check again the exact path name.

2) if you define libname books '...' then refer  to dataset should be

       books.<data set name> and not book.<dataset name>  (letter S is absent)

[Tap222]

Instead book.ytdsales.I am using work.ytd slaes its working.When I run this code a library name book created but In SAS log file it says book doesnot exist.

[Shmuel]

you defined libname books not libname book.

change to libname book and post your new log again

[Kurt_Bremser]

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@Tap222 wrote:

Instead book.ytdsales.I am using work.ytd slaes its working.When I run this code a library name book created but In SAS log file it says book doesnot exist.

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This is because the path for your library book does not exist (in the scope of your SAS process, which might be on a remote server or in a virtual machine).