topic Re: Can someone please tell why Division has length of 9 in the below code? in SAS Programming

Can someone please tell why Division has length of 9 in the below code?

pjpnk — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 08:05:11 GMT

data names;
    title='EDU';
    if title='EDU' then
        Division='Education';
    else if title='HR' then
        Division='Human Resources';
    else Division='Unknown';
run;

When I ran proc content for this code I get the length of 9 for Division variable but by default, it should have 8 isn't it?

Any help would be highly appreciated

Re: Can someone please tell why Division has length of 9 in the below code?

SASKiwi — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 08:32:48 GMT

I suggest you count the number of letters in the string Education more carefully as this is what defines the length of Division:

Division='Education'

Re: Can someone please tell why Division has length of 9 in the below code?

ruchi11dec — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 14:08:25 GMT

the first occurence div got is education and hence the length is 9.