Date:         Wed, 8 Mar 2000 12:10:11 -0500
Reply-To:     WHITLOI1 <WHITLOI1@WESTAT.COM>
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From:         WHITLOI1 <WHITLOI1@WESTAT.COM>
Subject:      Re: SAS System Viewer (6.12) gives wrong var. length
Comments: To: Tom Frenkel <taf2@IS8.NYU.EDU>
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Tom,

I have been able to recreate your problem in 6.12.  In version 8 the problem is
fixed.  There they have two lengths "length" and "dlength".  The length is 6 and
the dlength is 5.
However, it doesn't matter whether you want to see the data formatted or
unformatted,
you can still only see 5 characters.  DLENGTH probably means the display length.


Ian Whitlock <whitloi1@westat.com>


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Subject:    SAS System Viewer (6.12) gives wrong var. length
Author: Tom Frenkel <taf2@IS8.NYU.EDU>
Date:       3/8/2000 11:17 AM

To SAS-L:

I have a SAS dataset with a character variable of length 6, and formatted
as $5.  When I look at this dataset with the SAS System Viewer, and go
into "Edit - Properties - Variables", it shows the length of this variable
to be not 6, but 5!  This would certainly seem to be a bug.  Has anyone
else noticed this strange behavior?  Would anyone have a reasonable
explanation for this?  I'm using version 6.12, under Win NT 4.0.  Thanks!

        --Tom
        Tom Frenkel <taf2@is8.nyu.edu>
        http://pages.nyu.edu/~taf2