topic Re: libname contains foreign character in SAS Programming

libname contains foreign character

deleted_user — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:38:22 GMT

I am trying to assign libname with danish character, but I have invalid SAS name. So I added options locale=danish, but it still didn't work.

libname abc_VØ "C:\VO";

any suggestions please?

Re: libname contains foreign character

scyth — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:43:12 GMT

Don't?

Re: libname contains foreign character

deleted_user — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:16:59 GMT

Thanks 🙂 I guess that's one option.

I have checked my system options, locale has already been set to da_DK. So I am surprised that program takes filename with special character Ø, but not libref.

Is there anyway to overcome this?

Thanks again

Re: libname contains foreign character

Patrick — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:30:46 GMT

I'm also not a native English speaker.
But why do you want to make your life harder than necessary. Aren't there already enough real challenges for everybody not being EN-US?

Re: libname contains foreign character

deleted_user — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:07:03 GMT

I am not trying to make life harder. I am only trying to resolve a language related issue since I am working for a danish company. Any other help will be much appreciated. Thanks.

Re: libname contains foreign character

Peter_C — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:09:27 GMT

Keep memname simple and put special characters among a meaningful name into the memLabel. That "travels" with the data set so is available for selection and reporting

Re: libname contains foreign character

Doc_Duke — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:16:17 GMT

I am afraid that you are out of luck. The LIBNAME has a restricted set of characters to enable it to work on all platforms that SAS supports, including Z/OS. They still require 8 character LIBNAMEs (dd names) in JCL (just letters and numbers, starting with a letter).

Re: libname contains foreign character

deleted_user — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 11:05:32 GMT

Thank you for all you help. I guess I can use foreign characters in variables, statements but not librefs or filerefs.