Date:         Wed, 8 Mar 2000 18:09:20 +0100
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From:         Gehard Hellriegel <detecsm_hellriegelg@WESTLB.DE>
Subject:      Re: SAS System Viewer (6.12) gives wrong var. length
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Very strange!
I run this under Win NT, SAS 6.12, TS 060


data test;
  length a $6;
  a="slkjfdlksdfjlkj ";
  format a $5.;
 output;
run;

proc contents data=work.test;
run;


                    -----Alphabetic List of Variables and Attributes-----

                        #    Variable    Type    Len    Pos    Format
                        ?????????????????????????????????????????????
                        1    A                   Char        6        0

           $5.


You see, the Len of the variable a is 6!
Could you tell us, what code you are using?









Tom Frenkel <taf2@IS8.NYU.EDU> on 08.03.2000 17:17:38

Bitte antworten an Tom Frenkel <taf2@IS8.NYU.EDU>

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Thema:    SAS System Viewer (6.12) gives wrong var. length




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





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