topic Re: adding labels in multiple sas tables in SAS Programming

adding labels in multiple sas tables

Jedrzej — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 10:00:03 GMT

Hi,

I have to add labels to columns in about 100 sas tables that are in one libary.

I have one table with variables that contains

1 name of the tables

2 name of columns in these tables

3 name of labels that I shoud add

how can i do it ? i was thinking about using proc datasets and macros.

Re: adding labels in multiple sas tables

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 10:15:49 GMT

Yes (proc datasets) and no (macros).

proc sort data=column_labels;
by table_name;
run;

data _null_;
set column_labels end=done;
by table_name;
if _n_ = 1 then call execute("proc datasets library=your_lib;");
if first.table_name then call execute("modify " !! trim(table_name) !! "; attrib ");
call execute(trim(column_name) !! " label='" !! trim(label) !!"' ");
if last.table_name then call execute("; "); * ends attrib statement;
if done then call execute("quit; run;");
run;

Re: adding labels in multiple sas tables

Jedrzej — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 10:42:14 GMT

brilliant ! thank you !