topic How to process Variable lenght of label value is longer than 256 in SAS Programming

How to process Variable lenght of label value is longer than 256

Garyho — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 06:30:24 GMT

Hi ,all ,

data test;
	a="test";
label a="NCI CTCAE Grade (3)/Severity (4)/ Action Taken with Investigational product 
(5)/ Outcome (6)/ Ongoing / End DateRelationship to Investigational Product 
(7) / Relationship to administration procedure 
(8)/ Relationship to concomitant medication (9)/ Suspected cause other than investigational product and concomitant medication";
	run;

In Variable ,Lenght of label value too long and would be truncated to a length of 256 bytes.

So Do you have any advice to resolve this issue and show completed label value??

Thank you very much

Re: How to process Variable lenght of label value is longer than 256

andreas_lds — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 06:54:02 GMT

Not helpful, i know, but i think a label of more than 50 chars is far to long to be used anywhere. Maybe using footnotes in a report or a format to show text instead of values could solve the issue.

Re: How to process Variable lenght of label value is longer than 256

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 07:11:16 GMT

The label is physically limited to 256 bytes.

Put this explanation into a footnote wherever needed.

Consider creating a lookup dataset with these values, from which you can create text automatically.

Re: How to process Variable lenght of label value is longer than 256

ballardw — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 13:43:19 GMT

Can you show an example of other code you use where that label is desirable?

I have used long labels as such to document what some variable starts as, such as the text of a survey question but very seldom use those labels in reports or analysis.