Problem Note 57203: The VALIDVARNAME=ANY system option is not honored when specified prior to PROC IMPORT
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The VALIDVARNAME=ANY system option is ignored when it is specified in an OPTIONS statement before a PROC IMPORT step. Instead of honoring the VALIDVARNAME=ANY option, PROC IMPORT treats variable names that contain special characters as part of the name as if VALIDVARNAME=V7 was specified.
For example, a variable name of "test 1" is created as test_1 instead of "test 1"n when the VALIDVARNAME=ANY option is specified prior to PROC IMPORT.
There is currently no circumvention for this issue.
Beginning in SAS® 9.4, the VALIDVARNAME=ANY option is honored when it is specified prior to PROC IMPORT.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | Base SAS | Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.3 TS1M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.3 TS1M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.3 TS1M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64 | 9.3 TS1M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 9.3 TS1M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.3 TS1M0 | |||
| Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | 9.3 TS1M0 | |||
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | 9.3 TS1M0 | |||
| Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | 9.3 TS1M0 | |||
| Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | 9.3 TS1M0 | |||
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | 9.3 TS1M0 | |||
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | 9.3 TS1M0 | |||
| Windows Vista | 9.3 TS1M0 | |||
| Windows Vista for x64 | 9.3 TS1M0 | |||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Linux | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Linux for x64 | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Solaris for x64 | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | high |
| Topic: | SAS Reference ==> Procedures ==> IMPORT Common Programming Tasks ==> Reading and Writing External Data ==> with PROC IMPORT |
| Date Modified: | 2015-12-11 16:15:22 |
| Date Created: | 2015-12-07 10:34:38 |