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Problem Note 17725: The PUTC function in SAS® Component Language might return unformatted results
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If a user-defined format is created with a minimum length that is greater than the length of the variable, the PUTC function might return the unformatted result in SAS Component Language (SCL) programs. This is not the case for the PUTC function in DATA step programs, which will return the formatted result regardless of the variable's length.
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Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS/AF | Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.2 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.2 | ||
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.2 | ||
| z/OS | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.2 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.2 | ||
| Linux | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.2 | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.2 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.2 | ||
| OpenVMS Alpha | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.2 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.1 TS1M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.2 | ||
| Tru64 UNIX | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.2 | ||