ATTRIB Statement: Windows
Associates a format, informat, label, and length
with one or more variables.
| Valid in: |
a DATA step |
| Windows 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
Here is a simplified explanation of the ATTRIB statement syntax.
For the complete syntax and its explanation, see the ATTRIB statement
in ATTRIB Statement in SAS Statements: Reference.
- attribute-list
-
- LENGTH=<$>length
-
specifies the length
of the variables in variable-list. Under Windows, the length that you can specify for a numeric variable
ranges from 3 to 8 bytes.
Details
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.