Date:         Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:52:09 -0700
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From:         guya.carpenter@GMAIL.COM
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Subject:      Re: length of numeric expression
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On 10 Jun, 11:45, shashi <shashi2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there any function or way either in Base SAS or in Proc Sql to find
> the length of a numeric string including leading zeroes?
> For example,
>
> Numeric expression     length
> 0401117                      7
>
> could anybody please suggest on this?
>
> Thanks,
> Shashi

Something like this?

data length;
   length var $250;
   var='008487300';
   output;
   var='     00848730560       ';
   output;
   var='087498754';
   output;
   var='8764';
   output;
run;

data length;
   set length;
   length=length(strip(var));
run;