You can do this inline with the PROC IMPORT statement if you would like to.
On the OUT line:
OUT=Library.Name (rename=VAR1=Column1 rename=VAR2=Column2 ... rename=VAR(N)=Column(N))
This has changed apparently from Col1 in the past to VAR1 currenlty in SAS 9.4.
you can simply use rename option , check this
proc import datafile="&file"
out=want(rename=(col11=new_var col22=new_var2))
dbms=xlsx replace;
getnames=yes;
run;
So it seems like by using the "GETNAMES = YES" option, I was forcing SAS to create silly names that I was unable to reference. I was being silly, an easy work around was to change GETNAMES to NO, and then just rename the columns manually (there were only 26 columns, so it wasn't too bad.
Many thanks to everyone for their input.
Mike
You can do this inline with the PROC IMPORT statement if you would like to.
On the OUT line:
OUT=Library.Name (rename=VAR1=Column1 rename=VAR2=Column2 ... rename=VAR(N)=Column(N))
This has changed apparently from Col1 in the past to VAR1 currenlty in SAS 9.4.
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