Hi there, I apologize if there are other explanations for this same question already out there, unfortunately my understanding of SAS is extremely basic, so I will need an extremely plainly worded explanation if I am going to be able fix this error and proceed on in my class:   The error I am encountering is as follows:  "Open code statement recursion detected"   It occurs when I submit the following code (all I have done is replaced the word FILEPATH in the SAS file I was provided with the file path to the requested folder):   /***********************************************/ /* In the line of code below, replace FILEPATH */ /* with the path to your EPG194/data folder    */ /***********************************************/ %let path= C:\Users\Lara\Desktop\MySASfiles\EPG194\data; /**********************************************/ /* DO NOT EDIT THE CODE BELOW                 */ /**********************************************/ libname PG1 "&path";     Thank you so much. I've already spent hours on this and this feels a bit unreasonable since SAS Programming 1 is supposed to be very basic and require no SAS experience. ... View more