how to assign variable value as label of another variable

[thanikondharish]

data s ;
name='joseph' ;
new='peter ';
run;

how to assign value of name variable as a label of new variable  like see below

	joseph
he is a stat programmer
harish	harish

[gamotte]

I don't understand your example.

Is this what you want ?

data _NULL_;
set s;

call execute(cats('data S; set S; label new="',name,'"; run;'));
run;

[andreas_lds]

Sorry, but i don't understand what you try to do.

What happened to Peter?

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@thanikondharish wrote:

data s ;
name='joseph' ;
new='peter ';
run;

how to assign value of name variable as a label of new variable  like see below

	joseph
he is a stat programmer
harish	harish

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[ballardw]

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@thanikondharish wrote:

data s ;
name='joseph' ;
new='peter ';
run;

how to assign value of name variable as a label of new variable  like see below

	joseph
he is a stat programmer
harish	harish

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LABEL is a variable property. You can only have one label for a given variable. And does it need to be a label of a variable or the column heading for a report?

Give a more complex example of what you are attempting such as with three records with different values of name and "new" and what the resulting data set should look like.

Proc Transpose can use the value of variable to NAME a variable using the ID statement.