On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:05:35 -0700, Chris T <chris.tinnon@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

>Okay.... > >So a transpose statement occurs and I have some field named the >following: > > 3 > 4 > 5 > 40 > 41 > >I know these are not valid SAS variable names. I am using enterprise >guide and looked at the field names, copied them, pasted them into a >hex viewer to see if the blank were any weird characters, no. Just 4 >spaces, hex 20. But why does the transpose procedure even execute >with them? How can it create a dataset with those names if it's not >valid? The job doesn't bomb on that step, but rather when the dataset >it complete and another job sets it. > >Hopefully this is enough for some feedback.

Was the other job also run using EG? See http://support.sas.com/kb/16/867.html

> >I'm going back to crying.