topic Re: how to keep data set name more than 32 letters and also how write variable name more than 32 let in SAS Programming

how to keep data set name more than 32 letters and also how write variable name more than 32 letters

thanikondharish — Sun, 05 May 2019 08:16:18 GMT

data gggggggggggggggggggggggggg_yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy ;
set sashelp.class ;
run;

if i run above program i am getting error so how keep 32 characters length.

kindly help me.

Re: how to keep data set name more than 32 letters and also how write variable name more than 32 let

LinusH — Sun, 05 May 2019 08:28:35 GMT

Say what now?
I mean, just reduce the name to 32 chars...?

Re: how to keep data set name more than 32 letters and also how write variable name more than 32 let

Kurt_Bremser — Sun, 05 May 2019 12:10:43 GMT

Because that is a hard limit in SAS. Read the documentation.

Re: how to keep data set name more than 32 letters and also how write variable name more than 32 let

FreelanceReinh — Sun, 05 May 2019 13:00:57 GMT

Put the intended long names into labels and keep the actual names <=32 characters long.

data test(label='This dataset label could be up to 256 characters long!');
a=1;
label a='This variable label could be up to 256 characters long!';
run;

proc contents data=test;
run;

Re: how to keep data set name more than 32 letters and also how write variable name more than 32 let

VDD — Sun, 05 May 2019 13:49:49 GMT

think about it before you make the file names, make that mean something rather than tell a story.

In the years past you only got a length of 8.

what are you going to do when 256 length is not enough

Sloppy kids.