topic Re: How to name all of my variables except for a few in SAS Programming

How to name all of my variables except for a few

jss539 — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 19:11:31 GMT

Hello, I am using a macro to reshape a large dataset (%makewide) and am running into the problem of having 150 different variables I want to put as one of the parameters. Is there a way to do this without manually typing every single variable?

Thanks in advance.

Re: How to name all of my variables except for a few

ballardw — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 19:52:03 GMT

What are you doing with the other variables?

And it might help to show the code for your "makewide" macro.

Re: How to name all of my variables except for a few

Reeza — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 20:07:16 GMT

It depends on how the macro is coded. There are ways to provide variable lists but the macro may not be designed for that so the answer to your question is maybe....

Here is a reference that illustrates how to refer to variables and datasets in a short cut list:
https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2018/05/29/6-easy-ways-to-specify-a-list-of-variables-in-sas.html

@jss539 wrote:

Hello, I am using a macro to reshape a large dataset (%makewide) and am running into the problem of having 150 different variables I want to put as one of the parameters. Is there a way to do this without manually typing every single variable?

Thanks in advance.