a1 | a2 | a3 | a4 | a5 |
name | age | sex | country | race |
101 | 22 | f | india | black |
102 | 23 | m | india | white |
103 | 24 | f | usa | black |
take first record create as variable names like see below
name | age | sex | country | race |
101 | 22 | f | india | black |
102 | 23 | m | india | white |
103 | 24 | f | usa | black |
fix import
datastep infile
There is no information about "race" in the first table ...
The name alone is not sufficient to create a variable, type and length are required, too. That information could be extracted for the variables a1-a4 from sashelp.vcolumn, so you don't need to provide it, if having all variables as character-vars satisfies conditions.
Is it really necessary to create new variables? Would renaming a1-a4 be ok?
Can you post the table as dataset using datalines statement, so that we have something to work with?
proc import............;
getnames=yes;
run;
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