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senu188
Quartz | Level 8

I was looking over data you extracted using flow manager and looks like column name is having conflict all “/” are getting changed to “_”. when in run sas EG it is coming perfrect. Can any advice how the data is from "/" to "_" and how to rectify it ?

 

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Oligolas
Barite | Level 11

Hi,

 

some procedures are smart enough to detect if the name beeing imported is a valid sas name and convert the name in consequence.

Slash is not a valid name character, underscore is.

Please consult then Rules for Most SAS names for more details.

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Oligolas
Barite | Level 11

Hi,

 

some procedures are smart enough to detect if the name beeing imported is a valid sas name and convert the name in consequence.

Slash is not a valid name character, underscore is.

Please consult then Rules for Most SAS names for more details.

________________________

- Cheers -

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