Date:         Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:26:08 -0700
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From:         HXDAIC <HXDAIC@GMAIL.COM>
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Subject:      Re: lenght of a sas variable
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On 7月17日, 下午4时17分, ash007 <RamsamyAsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What is the lenght of a sas variable which format is '3.1' ?
>
> ash007.

data test;
 do i=1 to 9 by 0.1;
  output;
 end;
 format i 3.1;
run;

proc contents data=test out=testout;
run;

/* check the Variable Length of testout, length is 8 */