Please help me to get rid of the data step “data have; set have; if _n_>1; run;” in my code

[MikeZdeb]

hi .. another idea ...

data have;

input (ABC F1 F2 FDG)($);

cards;

ID Name Sex Country

1 ABC M IND

2 BCD F USA

3 CDE M GER

4 DGE M UK

;

filename nosee dummy;

data _null_;

file nosee;

set have (obs=1);

put (_all_) (=) @;

call symputx('rename',_file_);

run;

data have;

set have (firstobs=2 rename=(&rename));

run;

[PGStats]

Wow! That is mighty clever.

PG

[MikeZdeb]

hi ... among the many things I have learned from Howard Schreier is neat stuff you can do with _FILE_ ...

http://www.listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0811b&L=sas-l&P=23589

[Linlin]

Hi Mike,

Thank you! I tried to help this OP to find a better solution: https://communities.sas.com/thread/34279