Hi, This is my first post. I have searched for this error on these boards, but the solutions I am finding do not seem to specifically solve my issue. I am using Ron Cody's book "Learning SAS by Example." I created a virtual box on my machine and I access SAS University Edition through the localhost:10080 address. In the material, Ron has supplied two files, mydata.csv and mydata.txt. They are the same information inside, one is just comma delimited and the other is space delimited. I am trying to use the filename statement to alias a file. I am getting an error in response. This statement works just fine to read the file: data Demographics;
infile "/folders/myfolders/sasuser.v94/mydata.csv" dsd;
input Gender $ Age Height Weight;
run; This statement, however, does not: filename testalias "/folders/myfolders/sasuser.v94/mydata.csv";
data Demographics;
infile testalias dsd;
input Gender $ Age Height Weight;
run; When I run the second program, I get the following error: ERROR: Physical file does not exist, /opt/sasinside/SASConfig/Lev1/SASApp/TESTALIAS I am assuming there is something about the filename statement that I am not understanding, but I haven't been able to find a good answer online. Let me know, Adam
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