The code I posted was the full one;its short.   The full log is: 1 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK; 70 71 DATA highlow; 72 INFILE ’/home/johndoe/myfolders/Temperature.txt’; _ 23 ERROR 23-2: Invalid option name /.   72 ! INFILE ’/home/johndoe/myfolders/Temperature.txt’; ____ 23 ERROR 23-2: Invalid option name HOME.   72 ! INFILE ’/home/johndoe/myfolders/Temperature.txt’; ___________ 23 ERROR 23-2: Invalid option name johndoe.   72 ! INFILE ’/home/johndoe/myfolders/Temperature.txt’; _________ 23 ERROR 23-2: Invalid option name MYFOLDERS.   73 INPUT City $ State $ 74 / NormalHigh NormalLow 75 #3 RecordHigh RecordLow;   NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors. WARNING: The data set WORK.HIGHLOW may be incomplete. When this step was stopped there were 0 observations and 6 variables. NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time): real time 0.00 seconds user cpu time 0.01 seconds system cpu time 0.00 seconds memory 491.43k OS Memory 26536.00k Timestamp 12/30/2017 03:53:03 AM Step Count 18 Switch Count 1 Page Faults 0 Page Reclaims 239 Page Swaps 0 Voluntary Context Switches 6 Involuntary Context Switches 0 Block Input Operations 0 Block Output Operations 264   76 PROC PRINT DATA = highlow;   77 TITLE ’High and Low Temperatures for July’; 78 RUN;   NOTE: No observations in data set WORK.HIGHLOW. NOTE: PROCEDURE PRINT used (Total process time): real time 0.00 seconds user cpu time 0.00 seconds system cpu time 0.00 seconds memory 475.15k OS Memory 26536.00k Timestamp 12/30/2017 03:53:03 AM Step Count 19 Switch Count 1 Page Faults 0 Page Reclaims 196 Page Swaps 0 Voluntary Context Switches 5 Involuntary Context Switches 0 Block Input Operations 0 Block Output Operations 0     79 80 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK; 92   ... View more

My mistake, I wasn't actually running the 'proc sql' statement in the SAS UE environment; so please ignore that. That isn't causing the error. Also where it says "my user id" i am actually inputting my userid. so if my user ID was johndoe the code is:   DATA highlow; INFILE ’/home/johndoe/myfolders/Temperature.txt’; INPUT City $ State $ / NormalHigh NormalLow #3 RecordHigh RecordLow; PROC PRINT DATA = highlow; TITLE ’High and Low Temperatures for July’; RUN; ... View more