Associates a format, an informat, a label, or a length, or all
four with one or more variables.
| Valid: |
in a DATA step
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| OpenVMS specifics: |
length specification
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| See: |
ATTRIB Statement in
SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
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ATTRIB variable-list-1 attribute-list-1< . . . variable-list-n
attribute-list-n>;
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Note: Here is a simplified
explanation of the ATTRIB statement syntax.
For complete syntax and its explanation, see the ATTRIB statement in
SAS Language Reference: Dictionary. ![[cautionend]](../../../../common/63294/HTML/default/images/cautend.gif)
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attribute-list
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LENGTH=<$>length
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specifies the length of variables in variable-list. A dollar sign ($) is required at the beginning
of the length of character variables. For character variables, the value of length can be 1 to 32,767.
Under OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers,
the minimum length that you can specify for a numeric variable is 3 bytes.
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