worst variable name

[ichabod801]

The people who set up the database at work loved long, descriptive variable names. One of them was ClericalCodingCompleteDateTime. The problem being that we work in SAS, which traditionally* had a 32 character limit on variable names. So this got read in as ClericalCodingCompleteDateTim.

* The latest version of SAS screwed up all our code using Excel files. Previously it would replace spaces in column names with underscores. Now it allows variable names with spaces, so it just reads in the spaces. It took me a while to figure out how to handle that one.