topic Re: How to assign a name literal to the special character in SAS Programming

How to assign a name literal to the special character

LL5 — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 21:13:36 GMT

I have a column name which calles int'l that I want to assign a standard name literal.

I tried to put a single quatotion mark with a letter n like 'int'l'n, but it was still not allowed in the data set.

Can anyone guide me on this?

Haikuo — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 21:18:04 GMT

You can't use single quotes to quote partial single quote, SAS will be confused. Try double quotes:

options validvarname=any;

data test;
input "int'l"n $;
cards;
test
;
run;

Reeza — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 22:28:38 GMT

Not sure how your using it, you can look at NLITERAL() function.

LL5 — Sun, 17 Jul 2016 16:09:32 GMT

Thanks Haikuo!

LL5 — Sun, 17 Jul 2016 16:10:01 GMT

Thanks Reeza