Hi,
I want to modify all the field names in a table by adding _2022 at the end. Using rename for all the variables would take very long. I wrote my code as this:
My table name is Inforce_1906_new and it is in the WORK library,
proc SQL noprint;
select cats(name,'=',name,'_2022')
into :list
separated by ' '
from dictionary.columns
where libname = 'WORK' and memname = 'Inforce_1906_New';
quit;
proc datasets library = Work nolist;
modify Inforce_1906_new;
rename &list;
contents data=Inforce_1906_new;
quit;
However, when I ran the code, the SQL seemed to not doing anything. It has a note: "No rows were selected" in the log. And when I ran the second part to actually modify the name, it does not work.
Does anyone know what is happening here or does anyone has a better way of doing it?
memnames are always upper case, at least for datasets in BASE SAS libraries.
memnames are always upper case, at least for datasets in BASE SAS libraries.
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