Following code is submitted:

data birth;

infile 'C:\sas\project\birth.xls' firstobs=2 obs=20 missover;

input id BIRTHDTF :$8.;

run;

proc print data = birth;

run;

In the log you got this:

NOTE: 0 records were read from the infile 'C:\sas\project\birth.xls'.

NOTE: The data set WORK.BIRTH has 0 observations and 2 variables.

the file has 20 observations and sas won't read them, and don't know what is wrong, please help, thanks.