| SAS Statements under Windows |
Associates a format, informat, label, and length with one or more
variables.
| Valid in: |
a DATA step
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| Windows 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 the 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 the variables in variable-list. Under Windows, the length you can specify for
a numeric variable ranges from 3 to 8 bytes.
Using the ATTRIB statement in the DATA
step permanently associates attributes with variables by changing the descriptor
information of the SAS data set that contains the variables.
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