https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Attribute-ID-to-variable/m-p/697565#M213200 <P>Hello,</P><P>I want to know how to attribute a unique numeric ID to any variable.&nbsp;</P><P>Like in python there is a function named id() returns a unique id for the specified object.</P> Mon, 09 Nov 2020 10:30:30 GMT mazouz 2020-11-09T10:30:30Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Attribute-ID-to-variable/m-p/697565#M213200 <P>Hello,</P><P>I want to know how to attribute a unique numeric ID to any variable.&nbsp;</P><P>Like in python there is a function named id() returns a unique id for the specified object.</P> Mon, 09 Nov 2020 10:30:30 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Attribute-ID-to-variable/m-p/697565#M213200 mazouz 2020-11-09T10:30:30Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Attribute-ID-to-variable/m-p/697574#M213201 <P>You can use the automatic variable _N_ in a data step, or the <A href="https://documentation.sas.com/?cdcId=pgmsascdc&amp;cdcVersion=9.4_3.4&amp;docsetId=lefunctionsref&amp;docsetTarget=n0y09yghr5r11cn1b4ocojwqvrqe.htm&amp;locale=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UUIDGEN</A>&nbsp;function.</P> Mon, 09 Nov 2020 11:08:17 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Attribute-ID-to-variable/m-p/697574#M213201 Kurt_Bremser 2020-11-09T11:08:17Z