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Pyrite | Level 9 LL5
Pyrite | Level 9

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?

 

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Haikuo
Onyx | Level 15

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;

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Haikuo
Onyx | Level 15

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
Super User

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

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Pyrite | Level 9 LL5
Pyrite | Level 9
Thanks Haikuo!
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Pyrite | Level 9 LL5
Pyrite | Level 9
Thanks Reeza

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