topic Re: DATA Step labels in New SAS User

DATA Step labels

IanW — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 19:07:09 GMT

Hello,

I am trying to add label titles to a data proc. Any help is appreciated thanks.

data printe (keep=sdate t1_ts t2_ts t3_ts t4_ts t5_ts uow
recpname recpback maxrcrsn
t2_t1 t3_t2 t4_t3 t5_t4 t5_t1 intfbe
entries );
set recpresp;
file recpdtl noprint;
put @1 recpname $20.
@23 t1_ts time13.4
@38 t5_ts time13.4
@52 t5_t1 9.5
@63 entries $2.
@68 uow $12.
@81 recpback $10.
@91 maxrcrsn $4.
@95 t2_t1 9.5
@103 t3_t2 9.5
@111 t4_t3 9.5
@119 t5_t4 9.5
@131 intfbe $30.
;

Re: DATA Step labels

Kurt_Bremser — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 19:44:55 GMT

SAS works in steps. The steps can either be data or procedure (proc) steps. Wich means there is no data proc in SAS.

Do you want to assign a label to the dataset created by the data step, or to variables in that dataset? Both is possible.

data new (label='Dataset Label');
set xx;
label
  a = 'Label for Variable A'
;
........
run;

Re: DATA Step labels

Tom — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 19:49:43 GMT

Your data step is confusing. You are creating a new dataset by setting an existing dataset. And you are also writing lines to a text file.

What part of it needs labels?