Date:         Wed, 11 Jun 2003 02:28:26 -0400
Reply-To:     Tony <hztangli@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Tony <hztangli@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      encrypt sas dataset specific column

Hi All,
I have a sas dataset called passwd,which contains two column,USER and
PASSWORD.I want other people also can open the dataset and see value in
USER column,but they can only see encrypted value(not the real value) in
PASSWORD column,but in my sas program logic I should be able to use the
real value,for example:
 data _null_;
   if user='Scott' and password='tiger' then
   ...
In short,the dataset looks similar to passwd file on unix.
How can I encrypt dataset's specific column?
Thanks,
Tony