ATTRIB Statement: UNIX
Associates a format, informat, label, or length
with one or more variables.
| Valid in: |
in a DATA step |
| UNIX specifics: |
length specification |
| See: |
ATTRIB Statement in SAS Statements: Reference |
Syntax
ATTRIB variable-list-1 attribute-list-1 <...variable-list-n
attribute-list-n> ;
Required Argument
- 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.
Details
Note: The explanation of the ATTRIB
statement syntax is a simplified form. For complete syntax and description,
see the
ATTRIB Statement in SAS Statements: Reference.