Angelo Tinazzi wrote: > > Hi SAS-l: > > as usual discussion in SAS 'comunity' is animated ;-) > > Regarding the question I posted few day ago I want to thank > all the people gave me an answer. > > Thus, the limit of a SAS macro variable is system dependent, > but under my WINDOWS 95 Pc is 32k so a macro variable can > store up to 32768 chars. > This limit is not valid when you create macro variable using > call symput routine, since you assign the value of a SAS > variable, and the its maximum length (datastep) is different. > > So thank you again and hear you at the next animated idea > exchange :-O >

Angelo,

Any more trivial questions? <g>

Anyway, it is interesting to note that a macro variable, however, defined within a data step, cannot exceed 200 bytes whereas any definition and/or manipulation outside a data step can yield a macro variable significantlty greater than 200 bytes.

Anthony.