Hi Team,   I am running a SAS program in 9.4 version and when trying to pull the external file into the SAS environment, every time the error that shows is,   13 data demo; 14 infile "C:\\Users\\seshi\\Documents\\PAUL_COLLISION.XLS"; - 23 ERROR 23-2: Invalid option name =. 15 input sno name$ email$ contact$ authorizationLevel$ response$; 16 RUN; NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors. WARNING: The data set WORK.DEMO may be incomplete. When this step was stopped there were 0 observations and 6 variables. WARNING: Data set WORK.DEMO was not replaced because this step was stopped. NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time): real time 0.12 seconds cpu time 0.03 seconds 17 data demo; 18 infile EXCELFILE "C:\\Users\\seshi\\Documents\\PAUL_COLLISION.XLS"; ------------------------------------------------- 23 ERROR 23-2: Invalid option name "C:\\Users\\seshi\\Documents\\PAUL_COLLISION.XLS". 19 input sno name$ email$ contact$ authorizationLevel$ response$; 20 RUN; NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors. WARNING: The data set WORK.DEMO may be incomplete. When this step was stopped there were 0 observations and 6 variables. WARNING: Data set WORK.DEMO was not replaced because this step was stopped. NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time): real time 0.03 seconds cpu time 0.01 seconds   Thank you, ... View more