SAS Certification Prep Guide: Base Programming for SAS 9, Third Edition

Assigning Descriptive Labels

Temporarily Assigning Labels to Variables

You can also enhance your PROC PRINT report by labeling columns with more descriptive text. To label columns, you use

• the LABEL statement to assign a descriptive label to a variable
• the LABEL option in the PROC PRINT statement to specify that the labels be displayed.

General form, LABEL statement: LABEL variable1='label1' variable2='label2' ... ; Labels can be up to 256 characters long. Enclose the label in quotation marks. The LABEL statement applies only to the PROC step in which it appears.

Example

In the PROC PRINT step below, the variable name WalkJogRun is displayed with the label Walk/Jog/Run. Note the LABEL option in the PROC ...