Date:         Fri, 21 Jun 2002 11:13:51 -0700
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From:         Matthew Ness <MNess@CROMEDICA.COM>
Subject:      Re: Using Variable Values in New Variables Names
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Hi Jess,

It's a little tough to help you without having a more detailed example or
knowing exactly what you want, but proc transpose has an id statement that
will use values of a variable as names for the new, transposed variables.
For example:

data test;
  x=5;
  run;

proc transpose data=test out=trans (drop=_:) prefix=y;
id x;
var x;
run;

Perhaps that may put you on the right track...

Matt





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                    Jess"






I tried this:

data test;
        x = 1;
        y&x = 2;
run;

But that doesn't work. Could somebody point me in the right direction here?
I have values in a dataset that I am trying to transforms and don't feel
like writing a page full of if statements. Thanks.

[Jess]