Apologies for opening a track from old thread. But my issue looks similar. When i run the below code, i got the error as mentioned in subject. I applied workarnd suggested by AndrewF, but still couldn't succeed. I'm running this code in SAS EG 5.1. %global month tdcut infle inpth inpth2 cnt cnt2; %let month = 201411 ;*** current monthly processing date; %let tdcut = 31oct2014 ;*** the cut off date for daily csv trigger dates, matches the last date in the current application fi; %let clint = resfcu ;*** client; %let fi = ResourcesFCU ;*** fi name; *filename indat1 pipe 'ls -d /data_PPM/ResourcesFCU/Shopper/daily_files/*' ; *filename indat2 pipe 'ls -d /data_PPM/ResourcesFCU/Shopper/daily_files2/*' ; data null ; NewDir1 = dcreate('indat1','ls -d /data_PPM/ResourcesFCU/Shopper/daily_files/*') ; run ; data null ; NewDir2 = dcreate('indat2','ls -d /data_PPM/ResourcesFCU/Shopper/daily_files2/*') ; run ; data file_list1 ; length fname $250 ; infile indat1 truncover ; /* infile statement for file names */ input fname $250. ; /* read the file names from the directory */ call symput ('num_files1',_n_) ; /* store the record number in a macro variable */ If scan(fname,-1,'.') = 'txt' then delete ; If scan(fname,-1,'/') = 'dupes' then delete ; run ; error messages from my log 47 data file_list1 ; 48 length fname $250 ; 49 infile indat1 truncover ; /* infile statement for file names */ 50 input fname $250. ; /* read the file names from the directory */ 51 call symput ('num_files1',_n_) ; /* store the record number in a macro variable */ 52 If scan(fname,-1,'.') = 'txt' then delete ; 53 If scan(fname,-1,'/') = 'dupes' then delete ; 54 run ; NOTE: Numeric values have been converted to character values at the places given by: (Line):(Column). 51:27 ERROR: No logical assign for filename INDAT1. NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors. WARNING: The data set WORK.FILE_LIST1 may be incomplete. When this step was stopped there were 0 observations and 1 variables. NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time): real time 0.00 seconds cpu time 0.01 seconds
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