Date:         Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:40:24 -0700
Reply-To:     "John K. Troxell" <jktroxe@FPE.ERENJ.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         "John K. Troxell" <jktroxe@FPE.ERENJ.COM>
Organization: Exxon R&E, NJ; Opinions not those of the Company.
Subject:      Re: adding lable

JUNJIA@morst.govt.nz wrote:
>
> I have a sas dataset with 150 variables. Now I would like to add a lable
> for each variable. Could someone tell me which is best way to do that.
> Thanks in advance.
>
> junjia
 
Maybe this is inefficient or too simple but I would do this:
 
DATA TEMP;
     SET what.ever;
     LABEL var1="First variable label here"
           var2="Second variable label here"
             .
             .
           var150="150th variable label here";
     RUN;
 
PROC CONTENTS DATA=TEMP;
     RUN;
 
 
Where "what.ever" is the existing dataset name, and "var1-var150"
are the names of the 150 variables.
If everything looks hunky-dory on the output then I'd change
"TEMP" to "what.ever" and do it again.
 
                   John