Can variable name be modified in SAS Studio?

[Tom]

Since you can use SAS/Studio to run SAS code then the answer is yes.

For help with what code you want to run you will need to provide more details.

[Reeza]

Only if you have write access to the data set.

[sasuser282]

Thanks Rzzea. I uploaded data to SAS studio, and wanted to change variables names like we can do in SAS Enterprise Guide. 

[Reeza]

And how did you do that in EG? Via the GUI or did you write code or a Task?

[fja]

Hello!

I do not know about manipulating metadata to rename variables, but what about simply copying the vars and dropping the old? Would that be a fix for you?

See the sketch below.

Cheers

data work.NewTestData;
	set work.TESTDATA;
	LovelyName = BadName;
	drop BadName;
run;

[Tom]

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@fja wrote:

Hello!

I do not know about manipulating metadata to rename variables, but what about simply copying the vars and dropping the old? Would that be a fix for you?

See the sketch below.

Cheers

data work.NewTestData;
	set work.TESTDATA;
	LovelyName = BadName;
	drop BadName;
run;

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Note it is simpler to rename the variable.

data work.NewTestData;
	set work.TESTDATA;
	rename BadName = LovelyName ;
run;