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| LENGTH |
| Category: | Character |
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| LENGTH(argument) |
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The LENGTH function returns an integer that represents the position of the right-most nonblank character in the argument. If the value of the argument is missing, LENGTH returns a value of 1. If the argument is a numeric variable (either initialized or uninitialized), LENGTH returns a value of 12 and prints a note in the SAS log that the numeric values have been converted to character values.
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len=length('ABCDEF');
put len;
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