topic SAS SQL COlumn name with pipes and apostrophe in SAS Procedures

SAS SQL COlumn name with pipes and apostrophe

StaticFX — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 18:59:52 GMT

ok i know its odd, but i have a field name:

D.DISPUTE_ID||'0'||R.REASON_NUMB

how do I deal with that in a PROC SQL column name?

thanks!

Re: SAS SQL COlumn name with pipes and apostrophe

collinelliot — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 19:06:46 GMT

I don't know what you mean by this. That looks like the code is concatenating dispute_id from one table (alias d) and reason_numb from another (alias r) with a "0" in the middle. If this is just part of a select statement, I don't know what needs to change (other than possible issues with leading blanks). If it's part of a create table, you'd just want to do "D.DISPUTE_ID||'0'||R.REASON_NUMB AS your_desired_name," for the syntax.

Re: SAS SQL COlumn name with pipes and apostrophe

ballardw — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 19:07:38 GMT

@StaticFX wrote:

ok i know its odd, but i have a field name:

D.DISPUTE_ID||'0'||R.REASON_NUMB

how do I deal with that in a PROC SQL column name?

thanks!

Beat up whoever created it.

It looks like someone attempted to concatenate some values to create a variable but did it incorrectly, possibly in a macro

If that is the actual name you should be able to reference it using the name literal syntax: "D.DISPUTE_ID||'0'||R.REASON_NUMB"n

I would be very tempted to rename the variable (and fix any process assigning such a name) as typing such a name is asking for syntax errors.

Re: SAS SQL COlumn name with pipes and apostrophe

StaticFX — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 19:39:25 GMT

thats what it is doing in the original query...

but thats the actual column name now lol..I am afraid to rename the field in the original SQL code that creates the table because the table is used by who knows how many other scripts...

I would rename it myself but I cant get it to accept it lol

SELECT ID, [D.DISPUTE_ID||'0'||R.REASON_NUMB], INVOICE_DATE FROM COMBINED;

SELECT ID, "D.DISPUTE_ID||'0'||R.REASON_NUMB", INVOICE_DATE FROM COMBINED;

SELECT ID, `D.DISPUTE_ID||'0'||R.REASON_NUMB`, INVOICE_DATE FROM COMBINED;

nothing works..

Re: SAS SQL COlumn name with pipes and apostrophe

collinelliot — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 19:41:22 GMT

I concur with this: "Beat up whoever created it."

Re: SAS SQL COlumn name with pipes and apostrophe

StaticFX — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 19:53:23 GMT

ahhh i dint see the n after thank you! that was driving me nuts!! 🙂 I am renaming it from the query too lol

PS: im looking for the person who started it! lol

Re: SAS SQL COlumn name with pipes and apostrophe

ballardw — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 23:18:46 GMT

@StaticFX wrote:

ahhh i dint see the n after thank you! that was driving me nuts!! 🙂 I am renaming it from the query too lol

PS: im looking for the person who started it! lol

Start with the person in your shop refers to "macros" the most.