Date:         Tue, 9 Jan 2001 15:34:22 -0800
Reply-To:     Nick Paszty <npaszty@ORGANIC.COM>
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From:         Nick Paszty <npaszty@ORGANIC.COM>
Subject:      Re: Any reason why DESCENDING is not a valid variable name?
In-Reply-To:  <862569CF.0080A250.00@mastercard.com>
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Hello.

I don't know if anyone has pointed this out yet but the following is from
my Enterprise Guide Log;

WARNING: VALIDVARNAME=ANY is an experimental option.  The DATA Step and the
SQL procedure have
          been tested for use with this option.  Other use of this option
may cause undetected
          errors.;


Nick

At 05:24 PM 1/9/01 -0600, Jonathan Goldberg wrote:
>Jack:
>
>Thanks for the information (which Kenneth Moody also kindly provided).  I
>looked
>it up on my reference CDROM.
>
>The section on "SAS Name Literals" notes the following under "Important
>Restrictions":
>
>    You can use name literals in a DATA step or a PROC SQL step only.
>
>So, according to the documentation, you cannot do what you did in proc sort.
>But it works anyway.
>
>Jonathan
>
>
>
>
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>|        |          "Jack Hamilton"     |
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Jonathan_Goldberg@mastercard.com     |
>   |       cc:     Peter@CRAWFORDSOFTWARE.DEMON.CO.UK
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   |       Subject:     Re: Any reason why DESCENDING is not a valid
variable   |
>   |       name?
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>
>
>I used the wrong term.  It's "SAS name literals".
>
>If you have the online documentation in HTML format, look at the SAS Name
>Literals section in the Language Reference.  From the root address, it's at
><sashtml/lgref/z1031056.htm#z1031065>
>
>
>--
>JackHamilton@FirstHealth.com
>Development Manager, Technical Group
>METRICS Department, First Health
>West Sacramento, California USA
>
>
> >>> <Jonathan_Goldberg@mastercard.com> 01/09/2001 1:20 PM >>>
>
>
>Jack, Peter et. al.:
>
>"Name constant" is a new concept to me, also.
>
>I have searched the V8.0 documentation disk for it in vain.  It does work,
>though.
>
>Could anyone point me at a reference?
>
>Jonathan