ATTRIB

ATTRIB

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

Valid: in a DATA step

Windows specifics: length specification

Syntax
Details
See Also

Syntax

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

Note: Following is a simplified explanation of the ATTRIB statement syntax. For the 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. Under Windows, the length 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.

See Also

ATTRIB statement in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary

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Valid:	in a DATA step
Windows specifics:	length specification