Create dataset from dataset that doesn't have conventional names ("-" hyphen symbol in

[SASuserlot]

Thank you @Reeza . It worked and served my purpose now.   I informed the upper level about this issue  since its from a vendor.  From this post I came to learn extend ( new option) and how to deal with these kind of Issues. Thanks to you all. special mentions to @Reeza @SASKiwi  @Kurt_Bremser @Tom  for you time on this issue

[Tom]

You cannot use hyphen in a dataset name.

Example:

456  options validmemname=extend;
NOTE: Windowing environment support for VALIDMEMNAME=EXTEND is limited to Editor, Log, and Output windows.
457  data "test-name"n ;
458    x=1;
459  run;

ERROR: The value TEST-NAME is not a valid SAS member name.
NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.
NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):
      real time           0.01 seconds
      cpu time            0.00 seconds

Reprimand the fool that created the file.

Rename or copy the file to one with a valid name and then SAS will be able to use it.

[SASKiwi]

@Tom - I should have read the documentation for EXTEND a bit closer - see below.

@SASuserlot  - I believe your offending dataset is on your local PC drive. If so just go into Windows Explorer, make a copy of the dataset file, then rename it and remove the hyphen. I can only assume the producer of the file has renamed it manually like this as you can't create a dataset containing a hyphen in the name in SAS itself.

EXTEND

specifies that a SAS data set name, a SAS data view name, or an item store name must follow these rules:

• Names can include national characters.
• The name can include special characters, except for the / \ * ? " < > |: -. characters