Associates a format, informat, label, or length or all four with
one or more variables
Valid: |
in a DATA step
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CMS specifics: |
LENGTH= specification in attribute-list
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ATTRIB variable-list-1
attribute-list-1 <... variable-list-n attribute-list-n>;
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- attribute-list
- specifies one or more attributes to assign
to variable-list. One of the attributes that you can specify
is LENGTH=<$>length, which assigns the length of variables
in the variable list. Under CMS, numeric variables can range from 2 to 8
bytes in length, and character variables can range from 1 to 32,767 bytes
in length.
- variable-list
- specifies one or more variables that will
be assigned the attributes in
attribute-list.
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