Date:         Mon, 13 Aug 2001 16:20:44 GMT
Reply-To:     Ace <b.rogers@VIRGIN.NET>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Ace <b.rogers@VIRGIN.NET>
Subject:      Re: Interesting difference between 6.12 and 8.2

On 13 Aug 01 15:49:21 GMT, greg.woolridge@TAP.COM (Greg  Woolridge)
wrote:

<snip>

>
>I can't find any documentation on this change or any option that will allow
>me to go back to the old way.  The problem is that I have some programs
>where I do  a PROC CONTENTS and use a statement like if name='CHECK'.  Now
>it appears that I will need to change all that code to something like if
>upcase(name)='CHECK'.
>
>Has anyone else run into this?  Can anyone offer a better solution than
>recoding all programs?

"options VALIDVARNAME=V6; " will ensure that any datasets created will
contain only upper case variable names.

HTH

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Ace in Basel