Hi all, I get the following syntax error when naming multiple datasets using hyphen in sas and it's very confusing. Could someone please shed some light on why this error comes up? Thanks in advance!
5756 data test1-test10;
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ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: a name, a quoted string, (, /, ;,
_DATA_, _LAST_, _NULL_.
ERROR 200-322: The symbol is not recognized and will be ignored.
5757 set audiores;
5758 if a=1 and b=1 then output test1;
5759 if a=1 and b=0 then output test2;
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ERROR 455-185: Data set was not specified on the DATA statement.
5760 run;
NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.
WARNING: The data set WORK.TEST1 may be incomplete. When this step was stopped there were 0
observations and 95 variables.
WARNING: The data set WORK.TEST10 may be incomplete. When this step was stopped there were 0
observations and 95 variables.
NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):
real time 0.01 seconds
cpu time 0.01 seconds
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