What is difference between sas rename and lable?

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What is difference between sas rename and lable?..

Answer / anuj kashyap

SAS rename is used for variable renaming while lables is
used to define/alter the lables of the vaiables

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What is difference between sas rename and lable?..

Answer / naveen

Rename= Which is change the permanently variable name in
dataset.
Label= Which is change the variable name only in output
windows.

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What is difference between sas rename and lable?..

Answer / n katepalli

variable name may be 32 characters but usually in the
industry its 8 char i.e we have lable's to rename it upto 40
char.Lable is alias name i.e the description of the variable.
sas rename is used for renaming the variables.

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What is difference between sas rename and lable?..

Answer / kumar

rename occupies memory, where as label dosnt occupy space

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