Date:         Mon, 4 Mar 2002 13:13:37 -0500
Reply-To:     "Huang, Ya" <ya.huang@PFIZER.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Huang, Ya" <ya.huang@PFIZER.COM>
Subject:      Re: A possible bug of SAS viewer
Comments: To: Carol Gosselin <clgossel@GW.FIS.NCSU.EDU>
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I also run SAS 8.2 on W2k, my viewer is
release 8.2.1.0 (4/04/2001), what version
of viewer you use?

Ya Huang
-----Original Message-----
From: Carol Gosselin [mailto:clgossel@GW.FIS.NCSU.EDU]
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 10:11 AM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: A possible bug of SAS viewer


I am running SAS 8.2 on Windows 2000 and I do not see that behavior.  The
variables look fine in the viewer.



Carol L. Gosselin
Applications Analyst Programmer II
University Planning and Analysis
Box 7002, 201 Peele Hall
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-7002
Phone:  919-515-6435
Fax:  919-831-3541
Email:  carol_gosselin@ncsu.edu

>>> "Huang, Ya" <ya.huang@PFIZER.COM> 03/04/02 12:17PM >>>
Hello SAS_Ler,

For those who use SAS viewer, a weird behavior might be of
interesting to you. Try to run the following piece of code and open
the created data set junk.sas7bdat with SAS viewer, you will see
that cv1 and cv2 show values of cv1||cv2 and cv2||cv3. But cv3
anc cv4 are fine. This because that cv1 and cv2 have length=8, but
their attached format is $15. It seems that when a character var's
length is less then its format's length, SAS viewer will screw up
the value in display, although internally the value is correct (it
can be proved by running a where query in viewer).

libname y 'c:\temp';

data y.junk;
length cv1 cv2 cv3 cv4 $8;
format cv1 cv2 $15.;
cv1='abc'; cv2='def'; cv3='ghi'; cv4='jkl';
run;


I personally consider it a bug. It scared me when I
see the result is not what I expected.

Any comments?

Ya Huang