SAS Variable generation Error 180-322

[baumannnick97]

I am very new to SAS, which is why this question has probably a quite easy answer. I use the SAS university edition.

I have dataset containing socio-structural data in 31 variables and 1000000 observations. The data is stored in a Stata .dta file, which is why I used the following code to import in into SAS:

LIBNAME IN '/folders/myfolders/fake_data';

proc import out= fake_2017 datafile = "/folders/myfolders/fake_data/mz_2017.dta" replace;
run;

Now, I want to create new variables. At first, a year variable that takes the value 2017 for all observations. After, I have several other variables that I want to generate from the 31 existing variables. However, running my code I get the same error message for all my steps:

year = 2017;
run;

ERROR 180-322: Statement is not valid or it is used out of proper order.

I found many things online but nothing that'd help me. What am I doing wrong/forgetting? For me, the code looks like in all the SAS tutorial videos that I have already watched.

Thank you for your help!

[PaigeMiller · Accepted solution]

A command such as year=2017; must be in a DATA step.

data fake_2017;
     set fake_2017;
     year=2017;
run;

[User_Help]

try Tools -- Options -- Graph -- check "Suppress graph option statements in generated code".