Statements under UNIX

ATTRIB Statement: UNIX

Associates a format, informat, label, or length with one or more variables.

Valid:	in a DATA step
UNIX specifics:	length specification
See:	ATTRIB Statement in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary

Syntax
See Also

Syntax

ATTRIB variable-list-1 attribute-list-1 <...variable-list-n attribute-list-n>;

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]

attribute-list

LENGTH=<$>length: specifies the length of the variables in variable-list. The minimum length that you can specify for a numeric variable depends on the floating-point format used by your system. Because most systems use the IEEE floating-point format, the minimum is 3 bytes.