Date:         Mon, 12 Feb 2001 21:56:56 GMT
Reply-To:     Gary Ross <gary_ross@MGIC.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Gary Ross <gary_ross@MGIC.COM>
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Subject:      Re: lower case in proc contents

We use the validvarname=upcase system option.
This way you don't lose any of the version 8 enhancements.

Muhlbaier, Lawrence H. <lawrence.muhlbaier@duke.edu> wrote in article
<3A88523C.269557F@duke.edu>...
> You can return to V6 standarrds for naming with the
> OPTIONS VALIDVARNAME=V6;
> statement.  However, you lose a lot of the nice new features that V8
> brings you.
>
> Doc
>
> Chung-Jung Chung wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >   I created a sas dataset by SAS8 in UNIX and used
> > proc contents to list the dataset info. I found there
> > are 27
> > variables in "Variable" column printed with lower case
> > (I only listed 10 variables below, the dataset has 143
> > variables.) Is there any way to avoid this lower case
> > problem ? Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Chung
> >
> > ---Alphabetic List of Variables and Attributes---
> >
> >   #    Variable    Type    Len    Pos    Format
> > -------------------------------------------------
> >   2    ACTUPBRM    Num       5    256    10.2
> >   3    ADJFEE      Num       5    261    10.7
> >   1    ID          Char     10     56    $10.
> >  55    LRELATLN    Char     10    133    $10.
> >  43    UPB         Num       5    342    10.2
> > 124    USPS_CDE    Char      1    217    $1.
> > 125    ZIP2        Char      5    218    $5.
> > 126    ZIP4_2      Char      4    223    $4.
> > 137    assumefl    Char      1    244    $1.
> > 143    census      Char      3    253    $3.
> > 106    ff01        Char      3    200    $3.
> > 107    ff02        Char      3    203    $3.
> > 108    ff03        Char      3    206    $3.
> > 129    fsteffdt    Num       4    500    MMDDYY10.
> > 142    region      Char      2    251    $2.
> >  96    sp01        Char      3    170    $3.
> >  97    sp02        Char      3    173    $3.
> >  98    sp03        Char      3    176    $3.
> >
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