topic Re: Use headers longer then 32B in sas? in SAS Programming

Use headers longer then 32B in sas?

jacobkr — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 08:10:44 GMT

Hi,

Is there any way too use headers longer than 32B in SAS?

Can i somehow change my existing reports to consider longer headers?

/Best Regards Jacob

Re: Use headers longer then 32B in sas?

Haikuo — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 12:41:52 GMT

Assign Label to your variables, it supports up to 256 character, and don't have to comply with SAS naming conventions.

Re: Use headers longer then 32B in sas?

RW9 — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 12:54:30 GMT

As Hai.juo has mentioned:

Variable Name - this is an identifier, keep it short and simple, makes coding a lot easier. Its only for programming, so needs not have anything fancy.

Variable Label - this is the nice frilly output reference which won't be used in programming.

data want;

set have;

var="The variable is called var";

label var "The label however here describes what var is for and is used in the output";

run;