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aerbe
Calcite | Level 5

Is there a way to change the letters in a variable name from uppercase to lowercase?

Thank you!

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BobD
Fluorite | Level 6

Use the RENAME statement in PROC DATASETS (avoiding recreating the data set):

data have;
  myvar = 0;
run;

data _null_;
  set have;
  put _all_;
run;

proc datasets lib=work nolist;
  modify have;
     rename myvar=MYVAR;
run;
quit;

data _null_;
  set have;
  put _all_;
run;

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art297
Opal | Level 21

Never did it!  However, rename in a datastep should work (e.g., UNTESTED:)

data sashelp.class;

  set sashelp.class(rename=(name=NAME));

run;

I can't test it at the moment, but I would think that the lowcase, upcase and propcase functions could be used as well.  e.g.,

data sashelp.class;

  set sashelp.class(rename=(name=upcase(NAME)));

run;

Howles
Quartz | Level 8

I think you need %SYSFUNC, as in

data have ;

myvar = 0 ;

run ;

data want ;

set have(rename=(myvar=%sysfunc(upcase(myvar))));

put _all_ ;

run;

RICARDOIS
Calcite | Level 5
%let per = %sysfunc(lowcase(&period));
%put &per;
feb2017

With this I can now read/email sas datasets. filename_@per.sas7bdat files in UNIX/LINUX !!! Yey!!!
BobD
Fluorite | Level 6

Use the RENAME statement in PROC DATASETS (avoiding recreating the data set):

data have;
  myvar = 0;
run;

data _null_;
  set have;
  put _all_;
run;

proc datasets lib=work nolist;
  modify have;
     rename myvar=MYVAR;
run;
quit;

data _null_;
  set have;
  put _all_;
run;

aerbe
Calcite | Level 5

Thanks Bob, this worked well!

Linlin
Lapis Lazuli | Level 10

How about:

data have;

input (AA  BB  cc) ($);

cards;

qw er ty

cd rt ty

;

proc print;run;

proc sql noprint;

select catx('=',name,lowcase(name)) into : names separated by ' '

  from dictionary.columns

    where libname='WORK' and memname='HAVE';

quit;

proc datasets lib=work nolist;

modify have;

rename &names;

run;

quit;

proc print;run;

Linlin

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