how to assign variables take from first record

[thanikondharish]

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

[RW9]

fix import

[thanikondharish]

i did by using import but how to do without using proc import

[RW9]

datastep infile

[andreas_lds]

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?

[Ksharp]

proc import............;

getnames=yes;

run;