Date:         Tue, 30 May 2006 20:08:40 +0000
Reply-To:     iw1junk@COMCAST.NET
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Ian Whitlock <iw1junk@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: Label
Comments: cc: Ran S <raan67@YAHOO.COM>

Ran,

There is a misunderstanding somewhere.  Try running

   data w ;
     q1_1 = 2 ;
     label Q1_1='1.The children in my family fight with each other' ;
     lbl = vlabel(q1_1) ;
     put lbl= ;
   run ;
   libname q "c:\junk" ;  *<<< May need correction ;
   data q.w ;
      set w ;
   run ;
   data _null_ ;
      set q.w ;
      test = vlabel(q1_1) ;
      put test= ;
   run ;
   proc contents data = q.w ;
   run ;

You should find your complete label both on the log and listing.  Then you
might run a similar test on your data using OBS=1.  If you get the result
that you describe, then you will have to show code on SAS-L in a simple
situation that recreates your problem.

Ian Whitlock
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Date:         Tue, 30 May 2006 11:34:01 -0400
Reply-To:     Ran S <raan67@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion"
From:         Ran S <raan67@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Label
Toby,
Its not even that big for eg:
label Q1_1='1.The children in my family fight with each other'
and in the dataset I see the label as:
'1.The children in my family fight with'
When I am creating a temp dataset..I can see the lables fine. But as soon
as I create a premanent dataset it truncates the lable.
Why its differnet in the permanent dataset I cannot understand.
Thanks!