Proc fcmp: Getting warning if we use label statement

[yanamadala85]

I have written the 'stdid' function using proc fcmp, I have used attrib statement but unfortunately i am getting the warning like "WARNING: The LABEL statement has no effect in a FUNCTION or SUBROUTINE."

I have referred the following SAS site.

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/proc/68954/HTML/default/viewer.htm#n0seq1ln0q7zfrn1w44ym...

proc fcmp outlib=sasuser..study.demo;
function stdid(var1 $) $;
attrib var2 length=$25 format=$upcase9. label='x';
var2=tstrip(var1);
return(var2);
endsub;
run;

[Kurt_Bremser]

That is because inside the function you are only dealing with temporary variables (that will not appear in the step where you call the function), and the output is just a value, with no attributes other than length.

Therefore only the length= has an effect.