Date:         Tue, 8 Jan 2002 09:26:28 -0500
Reply-To:     don.henderson@US.PWCGLOBAL.COM
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From:         Don Henderson <don.henderson@US.PWCGLOBAL.COM>
Subject:      Re: transfer/copy variable labels from one dataset to another?
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A comparable technique, but one that does not read any of the records from
data set a is:

data b;
  if 0 then set a;
  set b;
run;

The "if 0" prevents the "set a" from ever being executed. But at compile
time it has the effect of defining the variable attributes. I'v used this
technique where I create "shell" data sets that have the attributes I
want/need in applications and then use something like the above to make
sure my data sets are consistent.

-don

"Ya Huang" <huanga@WORLDNET.ATT.NET> wrote in message news:
<U2w_7.344387$W8.12857311@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>...
> data b;
>  set a b (in=b);
>  if b;
>
> where a and b has same variables, a has labels and b dose not have
> labels, after the 'set a b', new data will have a's all attributes, then
use
> 'if b' to subset it to b.
>
> HTH
>
> Ya Huang
>
> "Popovic, Jennifer" <popovic@RAND.ORG> wrote in message
> news:8B1F8133439DD3118134009027D60094044AE8AB@dcmail1.rand.org...
> > i have two datasets with nearly identical variables.  one dataset has
> > variable labels; the other does not.  is there any way i can easily
> transfer
> > the labels from one to the other.  or is there a way to output the
labels
> > from one into code that could be run on the other?
> >
> > thanks,
> > jen
>
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