S

Specifies the length of statements on each line of source statements and the length of data on the line following a DATALINES statement

Default: 0 (no length restrictions)

Valid in: configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS statement, SAS System Options window

Windows specifics: Maximum line length

Syntax
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Syntax

-S n | nK | nM | nG | hexX | MAX | MIN

S=n | nK | nM | nG | hexX | MAX | MIN

n | nK | nM | nG: specifies the length of statements and data in multiples of 1; 1,024 (kilobytes); 1,048,576 (megabytes); and 1,073,741,824 (gigabytes), respectively. For example, a value of 8 specifies 8 bytes and a value of 3M specifies 3,145,728 bytes. The valid range for value for this value from 0 through 2,147,483,647.
hexX: specifies the length of statements and data in a hexadecimal number. This number must be followed by an X.
MAX: specifies to use the maximum line length allowed under Windows, which is 2,147,483,647.
MIN: specifies the length of statements to be 0, which causes SAS to use the default value.

Details

The S system option specifies the length of statements, exclusive of sequence numbers, on each line of SAS source statements and the length of data, exclusive of sequence numbers, on lines following a DATALINES statement.

The default value of 0 enables the SAS System to read a file with any line length up to MAX.

See Also

S system option in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
System option: S2

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Default:	0 (no length restrictions)
Valid in:	configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS statement, SAS System Options window
Windows specifics:	Maximum line length