https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-compare-two-sas-datsets-considering-only-observations/m-p/24644#M4194 Suggest looking at the COMPARE procedure and the WITH statement.<BR /> <BR /> Scott Barry<BR /> SBBWorks,Inc.<BR /> <BR /> Suggested Google advanced search argument, this topic / post:<BR /> <BR /> proc compare different variable names site:sas.com Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:53:12 GMT sbb 2010-10-28T17:53:12Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-compare-two-sas-datsets-considering-only-observations/m-p/24643#M4193 I have a problem where in I need to compare two sas datasets. But in the two datasets the variable are having different name though its the same data.<BR /> I do not want to change the variable name before comparing. <BR /> Is there a possiblity of comparing these two datasets supressing variable comparision and let it compare only observation.<BR /> for e.g<BR /> data a;<BR /> var1="aaa";<BR /> var2="ggg";<BR /> run;<BR /> <BR /> data b;<BR /> var_1="aaa";<BR /> var_2="ggg";<BR /> run;<BR /> <BR /> Please let me know how I can compare these two datasets. In both the datasets the variable var1= var_1 and var2=var_2. I want to show these two variables in the report so that user can refer to them properly. Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:34:04 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-compare-two-sas-datsets-considering-only-observations/m-p/24643#M4193 anandbillava 2010-10-28T17:34:04Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-compare-two-sas-datsets-considering-only-observations/m-p/24644#M4194 Suggest looking at the COMPARE procedure and the WITH statement.<BR /> <BR /> Scott Barry<BR /> SBBWorks,Inc.<BR /> <BR /> Suggested Google advanced search argument, this topic / post:<BR /> <BR /> proc compare different variable names site:sas.com Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:53:12 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-compare-two-sas-datsets-considering-only-observations/m-p/24644#M4194 sbb 2010-10-28T17:53:12Z