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ATTRIB

ATTRIB



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

Valid: in a DATA step
UNIX specifics: length specification


Syntax
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Syntax

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


Details

The minimum length that you can specify for a numeric variable depends on the floating-point format used by your system. Because most systems use the IEEE floating-point format, the minimum is 3 bytes.

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