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Ronein
Onyx | Level 15

Hello

I want to create a data set that contain information of label name for each field 

The new data set will contain  2 fields:

"Field name"

"label"

 

data rawtbl;
input ID Sex $ height;
cards;
1 M 178 
2 M 198
3 F 156
;
Run;

data rawtbl2;
set rawtbl;
label ID='Customer ID'  Sex='Gender' height='Height';
Run;
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ed_sas_member
Meteorite | Level 14

Hi @Ronein 

Like this ?

proc contents data=rawtbl2 out=metadata (keep=name label) noprint;
run;

or

proc sql;
	create table metadata as
	select name, label
	from dictionary.columns
	where libname = 'WORK' and upcase(memname) = 'RAWTBL2';
quit;

 

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