@Tom wrote:
You are talking apples and oranges here.
The code does not run in your UTF-8 session because the UTF-8 encoding of those variable names takes more than 32 bytes. It might be the original poster used some single byte encoding where those names were not longer than 32 bytes.
It may not be obvious as I am not a native English speaker, but that's exactly what I meant. The OP uses a single-byte system with the typical WLATIN1 (Windows 1252) codepage, and the transcoding of the variable names (that probably happens when I copy/paste from the communities to SAS Studio, all within Safari) cracks the 32-character barrier.
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