how to change the variable name

mdumlao0 — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 23:18:08 GMT

I'm just new to SAS... just two days now ... lol .. I imported a data .txt which have variable names in number range (0-4, 5-10, etc). It resulted to a 0?4, 5?10 etc.. how could I remove the ? symbol?

thanks you

Re: how to change the variable name

Reeza — Sun, 05 Nov 2017 00:21:37 GMT

Set the following option and rerun your import.

Options validvarname=v7;

Then SAS will automatically create names that replace spaces and invalid characters with underscores.

Also note the difference between SAS variables and labels.

Run a PROC CONTENTS on the data to see both.

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