With EG, you most probably have the SAS system itself running on a server. If you specifiy a relative path (something that does not start with X:\ on windows or / on UNIX), SAS will look in the current working directory it was started in, so it will not find the file in most cases. In order to get a valid infile, you must - find out what type of server you have - copy the file to the server or to a network location that the server (and your acoount on the server!) has access to - use the correct naming conventions when specifying the absolute(!) path to the file If your EG is a frontend for a local SAS installation on your PC, simply put the file in a location that's easy to find (like C:\TEMP), and then use 'C:\TEMP\newsalesemps.csv' in your filename or infile statement. ... View more