Reading date from Parm Card In SAS

balaji.edu · New User Joined: 09 Aug 2008 Posts: 7 Location: Hyderabad

Iam Reading the date from the Parm card in the belwo SAS code

RETAIN CYCLEDT 0
INFILE DATECARD;
IF _N_ = 1 THEN DO;
INPUT
@1 CYCLEDT 8.;

IF CYCLEDT = . THEN ABORT ABEND 16;
END;

the sas log has an error of cycledt not initalized. the error is
NOTE: Variable CYCLEDT is uninitialized.

i tried searchin in google is asys probable error are spelling mistake or using it in the right side of assgnment statement before it has been assigned any with any valus.but both are not true in my case

Thanks,

Robert Sample · Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 10:44 pm

See my notes in your other post. Your SAS code is incorrectly set up and the IF _N_ = 1 is on the wrong DATA step.