Hello Everybody,
I came upon a very curious problem:
I have a code in which I use name literals:
data "dataset mit leerzeichen"n;
set sashelp.class;
"variable mit leerzeichen"n = 1;
run;
Now, when I run the above code in a interactive EG-Session, it works perfectly fine, i.e. no errors or warnings.
However, when I run the exact same code in Batch-Mode, I get the following ERROR MESSAGE:
ERROR: The name variable mit leerzeichen is not a valid SAS name.
Thanks in advance for any helpful pointing into the direction of solving this issue.
FK
Try putting the following two options statements at the start of your code
options validmemname=extend;
options validvarname=any;
data "dataset mit leerzeichen"n;
set sashelp.class;
"variable mit leerzeichen"n = 1;
run;
I can only assume you're using different autoexecs when running in batch and interactive with one containing the options and one not.
Hello Mr. Brooks,
thank you for your advice. It worked!
I do have a follow-up question, however:
Do you know how to output the system options into a SAS data set? I only get them into the LOG, when executing this code:
PROC OPTIONS;
RUN;
As a workaround one could of course divert the log with PROC PRINTTO:
filename divlog "/pathname/logdiverted.txt";
PROC PRINTTO LOG=divlog;
run;
PROC OPTIONS ;
RUN;
However, I end up having a file on which I then would have to further work on.
You can use Proc Optsave for that i.e.
proc optsave out=opts;
run;
@ChrisBrooks wrote:
You can use Proc Optsave for that i.e.
proc optsave out=opts; run;
and reload the options with
Proc optload data=opts;
run;
if you need to make option settings temporarily and then restore them (as often as needed).
Thanks everybody for your help! Glad to see, there are so many SAS Specialists 🙂
Are you ready for the spotlight? We're accepting content ideas for SAS Innovate 2025 to be held May 6-9 in Orlando, FL. The call is open until September 25. Read more here about why you should contribute and what is in it for you!
Learn how use the CAT functions in SAS to join values from multiple variables into a single value.
Find more tutorials on the SAS Users YouTube channel.