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Hi, Thankyou for the response,   %let library= /home/vidyapedii0/CERT/INPUT/input04;   I created macro named "library" to reference the "input04" dataset in Cert library, i used "&library" in set statement to create another dataset. which is the correct way to use macro var library with quotes ( ex-"&library")  or without quotes  (ex -  &library) i got this question in practise exam, answer they have mentioned is without quotes(&library), but i couldn't create the dataset when i used macro variable without quotes (&library)   %let library=/home/vidyapedii0/CERT/INPUT/input04; data let;  set "&library"; run; ... View more

i can read the data with "&library" in set statement   73 %let library=/home/vidyapedii0/CERT/INPUT/input04; 74 data let; 75 set "&library"; NOTE: Data file CERT.INPUT04.DATA is in a format that is native to another host, or the file encoding does not match the session encoding. Cross Environment Data Access will be used, which might require additional CPU resources and might reduce performance. 76 run;   NOTE: There were 20 observations read from the data set /home/vidyapedii0/CERT/INPUT/input04. NOTE: The data set WORK.LET has 20 observations and 15 variables. ... View more

i am getting error like this 73 %let library=/home/vidyapedii0/CERT/INPUT/input04; 74 data let; 75 set &library; NOTE: Line generated by the macro variable "LIBRARY". 75 /home/vidyapedii0/CERT/INPUT/input04 _ 22 76 ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: a name, a quoted string, ;, CUROBS, END, INDSNAME, KEY, KEYRESET, KEYS, NOBS, OPEN, POINT, _DATA_, _LAST_, _NULL_. ERROR 76-322: Syntax error, statement will be ignored. ... View more