To delete labels and formats from SAS variables, use the PROC DATASET  procedure and attrib statement. Consider the example dataset ex with label and formats applied.

data ex;
    a=10.3;
    b=20.5;
    attrib a format=dollar10.2 label='VARIABLE A' b format=dollar10.2 
        label='VARIABLE B';
run;```
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To delete a variable label and format, use the PROC DATASETS procedure as below.

```sas
proc datasets lib=work memtype=data;
    modify ex;
    attrib a label=' ';
    attrib a format='';
    run;
quit;

ods select Variables;
proc contents data=ex;
run;
ods select default;```
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To delete labels and formats from all the variables replace the attrib statement as below.

```sasattrib _all_ label=' ';
attrib _all_ format='';```

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