maximum allowable character in observation

[mlogan]

Can anyone tell me what will be the maximum allowable cell content (in Work_Description variable) of the observation?

ID    Name   Work_Description

101  John     Construction Worker

Thanks,

[Astounding]

In theory, a character variable can be defined as 64K character long.  However, if you already have created a SAS data set, you can examine the variable definitions that are built in by running PROC CONTENTS.

[jakarman]

Was assuming 32k is the limit as it is processed signed not unsigned

[Ksharp]

The max length of a character variable is 32767.