topic Getting label within datastep in SAS Programming

Getting label within datastep

Kwok — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:48:27 GMT

Hi All,

Is there any way to extract the value of variable lable and convert to the value of a seperate variable within a datastep ? For example, If i want to create a variable label_desc which has the value of the the lable of the corrosponding variable ?

Just want to see there is a better way then doing it with proc contents , sorted and then merging back to the dataset.

Thanks

Re: Getting label within datastep

sbb — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:36:47 GMT

The SAS DATA step function VLABEL is what you want to use.

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Re: Getting label within datastep

Tim_SAS — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:37:51 GMT

Check out the VLABEL function: http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/62618/HTML/default/a000202869.htm

Re: Getting label within datastep

Kwok — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:42:13 GMT

Thanks much, This is what I am lookin for.