https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Access-variable-lengths-in-a-data-step/m-p/635676#M188775 <P>I need to automate using put to display information including data values and to align them using&nbsp;@. There are too many to do manually so it seems I need to be able to get the length of the variable so I can align each column when printing.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;I know I can do proc contents beforehand, but that wont get me the length of anything created during the data step which I would need.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Is there an easy way of accessing this information in the data step?</P> Sun, 29 Mar 2020 18:00:08 GMT weg 2020-03-29T18:00:08Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Access-variable-lengths-in-a-data-step/m-p/635676#M188775 <P>I need to automate using put to display information including data values and to align them using&nbsp;@. There are too many to do manually so it seems I need to be able to get the length of the variable so I can align each column when printing.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;I know I can do proc contents beforehand, but that wont get me the length of anything created during the data step which I would need.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Is there an easy way of accessing this information in the data step?</P> Sun, 29 Mar 2020 18:00:08 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Access-variable-lengths-in-a-data-step/m-p/635676#M188775 weg 2020-03-29T18:00:08Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Access-variable-lengths-in-a-data-step/m-p/635684#M188778 You can get the defined length of a variable using the VLENGTH() function. You can get the actual length of a value using the LENGTH() function. Sun, 29 Mar 2020 19:20:35 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Access-variable-lengths-in-a-data-step/m-p/635684#M188778 Tom 2020-03-29T19:20:35Z