Date:         Mon, 5 Dec 2005 10:51:32 -0500
Reply-To:     "Michael S. Zdeb" <msz03@HEALTH.STATE.NY.US>
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From:         "Michael S. Zdeb" <msz03@HEALTH.STATE.NY.US>
Subject:      Re: Length of variable
Comments: To: "Sridhar, Kumar" <nsridhar@MEDAREX.COM>
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Hi...the FORMAT has nothing to do with the LENGTH.  The length is set
either in a LENGTH statement of by the INFORMAT used to read the variable
value.  How did you read the data to create tha data set?


Mike Zdeb
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Hi all:

            I have a dataset in which I defined the format for the
variable comment as $200.  But when I see the length (thru' proc
contents) it has 202.  I am just curious why the length is longer than
the format.  I checked the length of the longest comment and found it to
be 200.





Any suggestions would, as always, be appreciated.





Regards



Kumar