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At 10:36 28/09/00 -0500, Jonathan Goldberg wrote (in part):
>copied directly from Charles Patridge's post with SAS V8.0 under Solaris 5.6
>gives:
>
>Obs v1 v2 v3 v4 v5
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> 1 5 4 3 2 1
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>just as Paul claimed it would. I cannot explain the discrepancy.
It seems that while SAS v8.0 uses one byte to store a character variable of
length 1, v6.12 uses 4 bytes (even if one explicitly declares the length as
1).
Kind Regards,
John
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