Date:         Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:27:21 -0700
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Subject:      Re: SAS variables greater than 200 characters
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Starting in SAS Version 8 character variables can have a length of up
to either 32000 or 32767 bytes, I can't remember which.  Does that
help?

Andrew Karp
Sierra Information Services
www.SierraInformation.com


On Mar 22, 11:15�am, vikram.vaidyanat...@GMAIL.COM (VV) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a variable that is greater than 200 characters long that I would
> like to read into SAS.
>
> While reading into SAS, I would like to split this variable into 2
> variables: VAR1 (containing the first 200 characters) and VAR2 (Containing
> the reamining characters).
>
> Also I want to make sure that if the 200th character is in the middle of a
> word, I dont want to have the word split between VAR1 and VAR2. I want to
> capture the portion before the whole word in VAR1 and then the remaining
> part in VAR2. Is there a smart way to do this in SAS?
>
> Thanks,
> VV