Hello everybody
I have existing dataset covid which has space in variables name like below:
numero expediente del paciente
I tried renaming them assuming SAS would turn spaces into underscores but when I run the program it sends a warning that the variable does not exist in the dataset. I have run PROC CONTENTS and the variables are there, but the variable name appears without underscores. The original data came from an excel file but I changed it into SAS data.
Here's the code:
libname COVIDBD '/home/mercedesaguilars0/sasuser.v94/SASMer';
data base;
set covidbd.covid;
run;
NOTE: There were 398 observations read from the data set COVIDBD.COVID.
data base2;
set base
(rename=(numero_expediente_del_paciente=numexp));
run;
Variable numero_expediente_del_paciente is not on file WORK.BASE2
Thank you
Set this option and reimport your data to avoid the issue entirely.
options validvarname = v7;
If you have this option set, when you import data SAS will automatically add the underscores to the variable names as necessary.
@MerAgSo wrote:
Hello everybody
I have existing dataset covid which has space in variables name like below:
numero expediente del paciente
I tried renaming them assuming SAS would turn spaces into underscores but when I run the program it sends a warning that the variable does not exist in the dataset. I have run PROC CONTENTS and the variables are there, but the variable name appears without underscores. The original data came from an excel file but I changed it into SAS data.
Here's the code:
libname COVIDBD '/home/mercedesaguilars0/sasuser.v94/SASMer';
data base;
set covidbd.covid;
run;NOTE: There were 398 observations read from the data set COVIDBD.COVID.
NOTE: The data set WORK.BASE has 398 observations and 199 variables.
data base2;
set base
(rename=(numero_expediente_del_paciente=numexp));run;
Variable numero_expediente_del_paciente is not on file WORK.BASE2
Thank you
You need to use what SAS calls a "name literal".
Just as
There are some others too (hexadecimal literals come to mind).
But you need to use a name literal, expressed as 'this is a variable name'n. So in your example, you probably should use
set base
(rename=('numero expediente del paciente'n=numexp));
SAS does NOT replace blanks in a name with underscores.
If your variable names contain spaces then you will probably need to do something like this:
data base2;
set base
(rename=('numero expediente del paciente'n = numexp));
run;
Set this option and reimport your data to avoid the issue entirely.
options validvarname = v7;
If you have this option set, when you import data SAS will automatically add the underscores to the variable names as necessary.
@MerAgSo wrote:
Hello everybody
I have existing dataset covid which has space in variables name like below:
numero expediente del paciente
I tried renaming them assuming SAS would turn spaces into underscores but when I run the program it sends a warning that the variable does not exist in the dataset. I have run PROC CONTENTS and the variables are there, but the variable name appears without underscores. The original data came from an excel file but I changed it into SAS data.
Here's the code:
libname COVIDBD '/home/mercedesaguilars0/sasuser.v94/SASMer';
data base;
set covidbd.covid;
run;NOTE: There were 398 observations read from the data set COVIDBD.COVID.
NOTE: The data set WORK.BASE has 398 observations and 199 variables.
data base2;
set base
(rename=(numero_expediente_del_paciente=numexp));run;
Variable numero_expediente_del_paciente is not on file WORK.BASE2
Thank you
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