Your code should look something like the following assuming you have a SAS dataset called office in the folder myfolders.      libname mylib "/folders/myfolders/";   proc print data= mylib.office; title 'my office details' run; ... View more

With this: data new_accounting (rename = (TempVar =EmpId) drop= EmpId); set accounting; TempVar = put(EmpId,$9.); you have specifically created tempvar as character (because of using a character format in the put statement) and then replaced empid with the newly defined character variable. Here: data shipping; input EmpId 1-9 EmpName $ 11-29 Gender $ 30 @32 HireDate date9. @42 Salary; you do not specify empid to be character, therefore SAS creates it as numeric. ... View more

To use the library you created you need to use a two-level name (libref.dataset).  If you omit the libref, then by default the data set you create goes in a temporary library called work.  To use library mydata, your code should look something like this:   options pagesize=60 pageno=1 linesize=80 nodate; libname mydata '/folders/myfolders/sasuser.v94'; proc contents data= mydata._all_; run; data mydata.tour; input Country $ Nights Aircost Landcost Vendor $; datalines; France 8 793 575 Major Spain 10 805 510 Hispania India 10 . 489 Royal Peru 7 722 590 Mundial ; proc print data=mydata.tour; TITLE 'Data Set MYLIB.INTERNATIONALTOURs '; run; ... View more

Move the format statement up, also your code gives other problems when reading the data from datalines - idnumber is not 6 characters long. ... View more