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Base SAS 9.4 Procedures Guide, Third Edition
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Base SAS 9.4 Procedures Guide, Third Edition

by SAS Institute
August 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
2218 pages
209h 16m
English
SAS Institute
Content preview from Base SAS 9.4 Procedures Guide, Third Edition
Working with Character Variables
You can use character variables for arguments that require a "char *" value only. The
character string that is passed is a null string that is terminated at the current length of
the string. The current length of the character string is the minimum of the allocated
length of the string and the length of the last value that was stored in the string. The
allocated length of the string (by default, 32 bytes) can be specified by using the
LENGTH statement. Functions that return "char *" can return a null or zero-delimited
string that is copied to the SAS variable. If the current length of the character string is ...
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