topic Error message: variable is uninitialized in SAS Procedures https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Error-message-variable-is-uninitialized/m-p/137703#M37043 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: #fafafa;">Hi Everyone,</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: #fafafa;">I'm new to SAS and I'm having trouble fixing this error message: variable </SPAN><STRONG style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: #fafafa;"><EM>color</EM></STRONG><SPAN style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: #fafafa;"> is uninitialized. Some of the suggestions I have found elsewhere on how to fix this don't seem to apply (the original variable is in the dataset and I haven't misspelled anything). Any other ideas on how to fix this? Also, I'm trying to convert a character variable to a new numeric variable in this code.</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: #fafafa;">Example:</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: #fafafa;">data newdataset;</SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: #fafafa;">color2=.;</SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: #fafafa;">if color="black" then color2=1;</SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: #fafafa;">if color="red" then color2=2;</SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: #fafafa;">run;</SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 10 Nov 2013 14:27:22 GMT AnneW 2013-11-10T14:27:22Z Error message: variable is uninitialized https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Error-message-variable-is-uninitialized/m-p/137703#M37043 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: #fafafa;">Hi Everyone,</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: #fafafa;">I'm new to SAS and I'm having trouble fixing this error message: variable </SPAN><STRONG style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: #fafafa;"><EM>color</EM></STRONG><SPAN style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: #fafafa;"> is uninitialized. Some of the suggestions I have found elsewhere on how to fix this don't seem to apply (the original variable is in the dataset and I haven't misspelled anything). Any other ideas on how to fix this? Also, I'm trying to convert a character variable to a new numeric variable in this code.</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: #fafafa;">Example:</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: #fafafa;">data newdataset;</SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: #fafafa;">color2=.;</SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: #fafafa;">if color="black" then color2=1;</SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: #fafafa;">if color="red" then color2=2;</SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: #fafafa;">run;</SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 10 Nov 2013 14:27:22 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Error-message-variable-is-uninitialized/m-p/137703#M37043 AnneW 2013-11-10T14:27:22Z Re: Error message: variable is uninitialized https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Error-message-variable-is-uninitialized/m-p/137704#M37044 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>You probably need to add a SET statement to bring in your original dataset that has the variable COLOR.</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 10 Nov 2013 15:12:16 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Error-message-variable-is-uninitialized/m-p/137704#M37044 Tom 2013-11-10T15:12:16Z