https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/character-space-being-translated-to-underscore-in-output-I-am/m-p/593836#M170502 <a href="https://communities.sas.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/13879">@Reeza</a> - Thank you for your reply: This was working for months until recently and the problem arose because the data is being used by SAS VA to display the data in a table and the column names are now different. Having underscores where there was a should be spaces or blanks. I am trying to figure out if VALIDVARNAME was introduced by maintenance or by a default profile change.<BR /> Thu, 03 Oct 2019 17:54:32 GMT teitels390 2019-10-03T17:54:32Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/character-space-being-translated-to-underscore-in-output-I-am/m-p/593825#M170496 Thu, 03 Oct 2019 17:19:31 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/character-space-being-translated-to-underscore-in-output-I-am/m-p/593825#M170496 teitels390 2019-10-03T17:19:31Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/character-space-being-translated-to-underscore-in-output-I-am/m-p/593828#M170498 I'm assuming this is in the variable name?That's the default and expected behaviour if VALIDVARNAME=V7. You can override this, I don't recommend it. <BR /><BR />You likely want the variable labels to show instead though and there are various ways to accomplish this if you post more details about what you're trying to do. Thu, 03 Oct 2019 17:30:24 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/character-space-being-translated-to-underscore-in-output-I-am/m-p/593828#M170498 Reeza 2019-10-03T17:30:24Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/character-space-being-translated-to-underscore-in-output-I-am/m-p/593836#M170502 <a href="https://communities.sas.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/13879">@Reeza</a> - Thank you for your reply: This was working for months until recently and the problem arose because the data is being used by SAS VA to display the data in a table and the column names are now different. Having underscores where there was a should be spaces or blanks. I am trying to figure out if VALIDVARNAME was introduced by maintenance or by a default profile change.<BR /> Thu, 03 Oct 2019 17:54:32 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/character-space-being-translated-to-underscore-in-output-I-am/m-p/593836#M170502 teitels390 2019-10-03T17:54:32Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/character-space-being-translated-to-underscore-in-output-I-am/m-p/593853#M170515 Ah..that's a different issue. Mostly likely an upgrade happened somewhere. Are any data sources Excel? Thu, 03 Oct 2019 18:54:16 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/character-space-being-translated-to-underscore-in-output-I-am/m-p/593853#M170515 Reeza 2019-10-03T18:54:16Z