gettiong error while using sas 9.4 in windows 10

[rupesh009]

96 data rupesh;
97 infile '?E:\s\SAS\practice\data.txt';
98 input name$ age;
99 run;

ERROR: Physical file does not exist, ?E: s\SAS\practice\data.txt.
NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.
WARNING: The data set WORK.RUPESH may be incomplete. When this step was stopped there were 0
observations and 2 variables.
WARNING: Data set WORK.RUPESH was not replaced because this step was stopped.
NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):
real time 0.02 seconds
cpu time 0.01 seconds

100 data rupesh;
101 infile '?"E:\s\SAS\practice\data.txt"';
102 input name$ age;
103 run;

ERROR: Physical file does not exist, ?"E: s\SAS\practice\data.txt".
NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.
WARNING: The data set WORK.RUPESH may be incomplete. When this step was stopped there were 0
observations and 2 variables.
WARNING: Data set WORK.RUPESH was not replaced because this step was stopped.
NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):
real time 0.03 seconds
cpu time 0.04 seconds

[bobpep212]

Stray ? in front of the E:\ - remove that ?

[rupesh009]

data rupesh;
infile '‪E:\s\SAS\practice\data.txt';
input name$ age;
run;

above one is my program,

below is the log 

96 data rupesh;
97 infile '?E:\s\SAS\practice\data.txt';
98 input name$ age;
99 run;

ERROR: Physical file does not exist, ?E: s\SAS\practice\data.txt.
NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.
WARNING: The data set WORK.RUPESH may be incomplete. When this step was stopped there were 0
observations and 2 variables.
WARNING: Data set WORK.RUPESH was not replaced because this step was stopped.
NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):
real time 0.02 seconds
cpu time 0.01 seconds

100 data rupesh;
101 infile '?"E:\s\SAS\practice\data.txt"';
102 input name$ age;
103 run;

ERROR: Physical file does not exist, ?"E: s\SAS\practice\data.txt".
NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.
WARNING: The data set WORK.RUPESH may be incomplete. When this step was stopped there were 0
observations and 2 variables.
WARNING: Data set WORK.RUPESH was not replaced because this step was stopped.
NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):
real time 0.03 seconds
cpu time 0.04 seconds

[Astounding]

SAS is very clear about the source of the error.  You refer to a file that does not exist:

?"E: s\SAS\practice\data.txt"

What is the correct spelling for the file name?  Nobody can help here.  You just have to name a file that actually exists.  Some possibilities (because they are unusual in the spelling of a file name):

• The question mark at the beginning
• Adding the double quotes (file names do not usually contain quotes)
• The space after E:  (often there would be a backslash instead of a space)

But nobody is looking at your computer except you.  So find the right spelling for the file that you want to read.

[rupesh009]

file is there but it is showing error , that's why i am asking your help

do i need to change any setting?

[bobpep212]

Not sure what to tell you. Somehow that 'E:\ is resolving to ?E: . Maybe try putting it in double quotes and running it.

[Kurt_Bremser]

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@rupesh009 wrote:

file is there but it is showing error , that's why i am asking your help

do i need to change any setting?

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You just have to TYPE THE FILENAME CORRECTLY. I guess you copy/pasted that code across something that converted part of the text to unicode. Re-type everything from scratch in SAS.

[VDD]

ERROR: Physical file does not exist, ?E: s\SAS\practice\data.txt.

you need to address the file path.

[bobpep212]

filename test "E:\s\SAS\practice\data.txt";

data rupesh;
infile test;
input name$ age;
run;

Are you able to associate the path to a fileref like above? Still get an error on that filename statement?

[Reeza]

Make sure your browser and keyboard are set to English settings otherwise you can run into trouble. Are you using a full licensed edition of SAS or SAS UE? If you're using SAS UE you need to use the myfolders folder to access data. If you're using a full version then you should be able to navigate to the file in windows, hold down SHIFT+Right Click the file, copy as path and use that in your program.

[bobpep212]

I'm thinking it is keyboard setting/language related as Reeza suggests. The way it is putting that ? and extra space in there. I'm using UE and here's how the error looks when you try to reference a local filepath, so I don't think it is that. But if you are using UE, then yes, you need to get the file into myfolders.
ERROR: Physical file does not exist, /opt/sasinside/SASConfig/Lev1/SASApp/E:\s\SAS\practice\data.txt.