Thank you,   As I was working on the files and data sets from the course download the file directory that I called from was different from where some of it is saved. I changed the file pathway and it is now working for both the initial and the library function.   Had to right-click properties on the storm_summary to find out it was different.   Thank you for your help and time. ... View more

This is the initial code and log that was used. proc contents data="Z:\Users\UKGC\Documents\Coding\SAS\EPG1V2\data\storm_summary.sas7bdat"; run; 1 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK; 72 73 proc contents data="Z:\Users\UKGC\Documents\Coding\SAS\EPG1V2\data\storm_summary.sas7bdat"; ERROR: The physical file name "Z:\Users\UKGC\Documents\Coding\SAS\EPG1V2\data\storm_summary.sas7bdat" is too long. 74 run; NOTE: Statements not processed because of errors noted above. NOTE: PROCEDURE CONTENTS used (Total process time): real time 0.00 seconds user cpu time 0.00 seconds system cpu time 0.00 seconds memory 470.65k OS Memory 29864.00k Timestamp 05/23/2020 02:54:52 PM Step Count 108 Switch Count 0 Page Faults 0 Page Reclaims 61 Page Swaps 0 Voluntary Context Switches 0 Involuntary Context Switches 0 Block Input Operations 0 Block Output Operations 8 NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors. 75 76 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK; 88 Then the libname adaption that you suggested to me with the log. libname coding "Z:\Users\UKGC\Documents\Coding\SAS\EPG1V2\data"; proc contents data=coding.storm_summary; run; 1 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK; 72 73 libname coding "Z:\Users\UKGC\Documents\Coding\SAS\EPG1V2\data"; NOTE: Library CODING does not exist. 74 75 proc contents data=coding.storm_summary; ERROR: File CODING.STORM_SUMMARY.DATA does not exist. 76 run; NOTE: Statements not processed because of errors noted above. NOTE: PROCEDURE CONTENTS used (Total process time): real time 0.00 seconds user cpu time 0.00 seconds system cpu time 0.00 seconds memory 473.93k OS Memory 29864.00k Timestamp 05/23/2020 03:40:56 PM Step Count 114 Switch Count 0 Page Faults 0 Page Reclaims 63 Page Swaps 0 Voluntary Context Switches 0 Involuntary Context Switches 0 Block Input Operations 0 Block Output Operations 8 NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors. 77 78 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK; 90 sorry if I have missed something basic but I just can't figure out what has gone wrong. ... View more

Thank you for your reply, unfortunately, the solution didn't work, it comes up with a different error and creating libraries was the next section of the course so hopefully, I can figure out the new issue there.    I am trying to find out what the issue was with the physical file name length and which bit I need to change to hard code the pathway as in the course, can't understand the error as the storm_summary.sas7bdat is used in the example in the course. ... View more