topic Re: Difference between these arrays in SAS Programming

Difference between these arrays

GN0001 — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 23:03:31 GMT

Hello team,

What are the differences between these two arrays?

array thisitem{*} $5 itemA itemB itemC

array array{3} itemA itemB itemC

Regards,

tarheel13 — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 23:37:01 GMT

$5 means the elements of the array will be character with length 5. without putting $, it would be a numeric array.

SASKiwi — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 00:05:59 GMT

@tarheel13 wrote:

$5 means the elements of the array will be character with length 5. without putting $, it would be a numeric array.

Unless the elements of the array already exist in which case they will retain their existing type.