topic Re: Case change in SAS in SAS Programming

Case change in SAS

librasonali — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 10:49:48 GMT

hi ,

i have one final dataset "member" which is creating a flatfile xyz.csv
now i have few of the fields in xyz.csv of different case i want them to be all in same case as my previous flat file.

expected	current
Partner_ID	Partner_ID
CUST_SEG	cust_seg
SBSCR_SSN	sbscr_ssn
depn_nbr	DEPN_NBR
first_name	FIRST_NAME
last_name	LAST_NAME
pat_dob	pat_dob

Re: Case change in SAS

Kurt_Bremser — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 07:55:14 GMT

In which step do you define the names in your SAS dataset?

And how do you create the flat file?

Please supply the respective codes, especially the one for the export.

Re: Case change in SAS

Rick_SAS — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 10:40:07 GMT

These look like variable names. I want to point out that SAS is case-insensitive to names, so that

first_name, FIRST_NAME, First_Name, and FiRsT_NaMe all represent the same variable.

I don't know why you want to change the case of the names, but perhaps it is so that printed output looks nicer. In that case, consider using the LABEL statement to add labels for the variables. For example,

data have;
label first = "First Name"
      last = "Last Name";
first = 1;
last = 10;
run;

proc print data=Have label;
run;

Re: Case change in SAS

librasonali — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 10:48:13 GMT

thank you for always helping 🙂
i solved the issue. i was thinking some effective way but i just used as simply.