Hi,
Is there any way too use headers longer than 32B in SAS?
Can i somehow change my existing reports to consider longer headers?
/Best Regards Jacob
Assign Label to your variables, it supports up to 256 character, and don't have to comply with SAS naming conventions.
As Hai.juo has mentioned:
Variable Name - this is an identifier, keep it short and simple, makes coding a lot easier. Its only for programming, so needs not have anything fancy.
Variable Label - this is the nice frilly output reference which won't be used in programming.
data want;
set have;
var="The variable is called var";
label var "The label however here describes what var is for and is used in the output";
run;
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