https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-get-last-3-bytes-in-a-variable/m-p/76606#M16577 This looks promising.<BR /> <BR /> [pre]<BR /> data test;<BR /> infile cards dlm=', .;';<BR /> input word :$24. @@;<BR /> length L3 $3;<BR /> L3= substrN(word,length(word)-2);<BR /> cards4;<BR /> Hi,<BR /> I need to get last 3 bytes in a variable length variable, irrespective of what ever total length that variable is.<BR /> <BR /> thanks,<BR /> sasbase <BR /> ;;;;<BR /> run;<BR /> <BR /> proc contents;<BR /> run;<BR /> proc print;<BR /> run;<BR /> [/pre] Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:01:21 GMT data_null__ 2009-03-07T15:01:21Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-get-last-3-bytes-in-a-variable/m-p/76605#M16576 Hi,<BR /> I need to get last 3 bytes in a variable length variable, irrespective of what ever total length that variable is.<BR /> <BR /> thanks,<BR /> sasbase Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:05:31 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-get-last-3-bytes-in-a-variable/m-p/76605#M16576 deleted_user 2009-03-07T14:05:31Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-get-last-3-bytes-in-a-variable/m-p/76606#M16577 This looks promising.<BR /> <BR /> [pre]<BR /> data test;<BR /> infile cards dlm=', .;';<BR /> input word :$24. @@;<BR /> length L3 $3;<BR /> L3= substrN(word,length(word)-2);<BR /> cards4;<BR /> Hi,<BR /> I need to get last 3 bytes in a variable length variable, irrespective of what ever total length that variable is.<BR /> <BR /> thanks,<BR /> sasbase <BR /> ;;;;<BR /> run;<BR /> <BR /> proc contents;<BR /> run;<BR /> proc print;<BR /> run;<BR /> [/pre] Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:01:21 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-get-last-3-bytes-in-a-variable/m-p/76606#M16577 data_null__ 2009-03-07T15:01:21Z