Thanks. The first part works now but I want SAS to read another file and that does not work in terms of the libname. LIBNAME RX18 "C:\Users\nidia\Documents\SASTHESIS"; FILENAME IN2 "C:\Users\nidia\Documents\SASTHESIS\RX18\H206A.ssp"; PROC XCOPY IN=IN2 OUT=RX18 IMPORT; Run;   PROC CONTENTS DATA= RX18.H206A; TITLE “List of Variables SCRIPT 2018 MEPS”; Run;   It gives me this in the log    LIBNAME RX18 "C:\Users\nidia\Documents\SASTHESIS"; NOTE: Libref RX18 refers to the same physical library as RX17. NOTE: Libref RX18 was successfully assigned as follows: Engine: V9 Physical Name: C:\Users\nidia\Documents\SASTHESIS 121 FILENAME IN2 "C:\Users\nidia\Documents\SASTHESIS\RX18\H206A.ssp"; 122 PROC XCOPY IN=IN2 OUT=RX18 IMPORT; 123 Run; NOTE: Input library IN2 is sequential. ERROR: File is probably a cport file. XPORT engine unable to read file created by proc cport. Please use proc cimport to convert this file to native format. NOTE: Statements not processed because of errors noted above. NOTE: PROCEDURE XCOPY used (Total process time): real time 0.00 seconds cpu time 0.00 seconds NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.   ... View more

I added the slashes but I still get errors. This is the log:   18 /**this is the start of the prescribed medicine files for 2017 first**/ 19 20 LIBNAME RX17 "C: \Users\nidia\Documents\SASTHESIS"; NOTE: Library RX17 does not exist. 21 FILENAME IN1 "C: \Users\nidia\Documents\SASTHESIS\RX17\H197a.ssp"; 22 PROC XCOPY IN=IN1 OUT=RX17 IMPORT; 23 Run; WARNING: Library RX17 does not exist. NOTE: Input library IN1 is sequential. ERROR: Physical file does not exist, C:\Users\nidia\ \Users\nidia\Documents\SASTHESIS\RX17\H197a.ssp. NOTE: Statements not processed because of errors noted above. NOTE: PROCEDURE XCOPY used (Total process time): real time 0.00 seconds cpu time 0.01 seconds NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors. 24 PROC CONTENTS DATA= RX17h197a; ERROR: File WORK.RX17H197A.DATA does not exist. 25 TITLE "List of Variables SCRIPT 2017 MEPS"; 26 Run; NOTE: Statements not processed because of errors noted above. NOTE: PROCEDURE CONTENTS used (Total process time): real time 0.01 seconds cpu time 0.01 seconds NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors. 27 28 /**start of the prescribed medicine files for 2018**/ 29 30 LIBNAME RX18 “"C: \Users\nidia\Documents\SASTHESIS"; ERROR: Libref in LIBNAME statement must be followed either by quoted string or engine name or semicolon; "“" found. ERROR: Error in the LIBNAME statement. 31 FILENAME IN1 “"C: \Users\nidia\Documents\SASTHESIS\RX18\H206a.ssp"; ERROR: Error in the FILENAME statement. 32 PROC XCOPY IN=IN1 OUT=RX18 IMPORT; 33 Run; ERROR: Libref RX18 is not assigned. NOTE: Statements not processed because of errors noted above. NOTE: PROCEDURE XCOPY used (Total process time): real time 0.00 seconds cpu time 0.01 seconds NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors. 34 35 PROC CONTENTS DATA= RX18.h206a; ERROR: Libref RX18 is not assigned. 36 TITLE “List of Variables SCRIPT 2018 MEPS”; 37 Run; NOTE: Statements not processed because of errors noted above. NOTE: PROCEDURE CONTENTS used (Total process time): real time 0.01 seconds cpu time 0.01 seconds NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors. ... View more

Now it says this ERROR: Physical file does not exist, c:\USERS\NTORRES3\DOWNLOADS\EXT.H188A.ssp. ERROR: Import unsuccessful. See SAS Log for details. NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors. NOTE: PROCEDURE IMPORT used (Total process time): real time 0.03 seconds cpu time 0.03 seconds ... View more

Now it says  ERROR: Invalid data set name EXT.H188A.SSP_IMPORT. PROC IMPORT DATAFILE="c:\USERS\NTORRES3\DOWNLOADS\EXT.H188A.ssp" DBMS=SSP OUT=EXT.H188A.SSP_IMPORT; GETNAMES=YES; GUESSINGROWS=MAX; REPLACE; run; I just want to be able to read the files so I can start my project but I cannot get past this.  ... View more