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Difference of variable length and diskspace in SAS Studio comparatively SAS PC

siddhu1 — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 14:29:18 GMT

Hi Team,

I am trying to run the sample code in both SAS PC and SAS Studio.

I have noticed the variable is increased almost 3 times in SAS Studio comparatively SAS PC.

Due to which the output file size has been increased almost 3 times that of SAS PC.

Note: The number of observations and variables are same , but the variable length and disk space has been varied.

Can anyone help us on this.

Thanks,

Siddhu1

Re: Difference of variable length and diskspace in SAS Studio comparatively SAS PC

Tom — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 14:31:35 GMT

Did you forget to attach the code to your message? Without example code we have nothing to comment on.

Re: Difference of variable length and diskspace in SAS Studio comparatively SAS PC

Quentin — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 14:36:16 GMT

My guess is your PC sas session uses Latin encoding but the Studio session is running on a machine with UTF-8 encoding, which uses 3 bytes to store a single text character instead of 1 byte. For more on encoding, see e.g. https://www.sas.com/content/dam/SAS/support/en/sas-global-forum-proceedings/2020/4561-2020.pdf

Re: Difference of variable length and diskspace in SAS Studio comparatively SAS PC

Reeza — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 15:58:58 GMT

Are you using proc import to import your data or are you using a data step that assigns the same lengths, type and format?
Are you using the Same OS in each installation, ie is PC on Windows and Studio also on Windows or Unix?