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philippe777
Calcite | Level 5

Hi, 

 

I am trying to export a data set from SAS to SPSS and Excel. 

 

Everything work fine except for the length of the variable label. 

 

SPSS is limit to 128gb in the export (it is not a SPSS limit) and for Excel this is 256 (not a Excel limit). 

 

Here is my code. 

 

proc export data = PH2017c
outfile="C:\Users.xlsx"
dbms=xlsx
replace;
run;

 

proc export data = PH2017c
outfile="C:\Users"
dbms=spss replace;
fmtlib=library.formats;
run;

 

Thanks 

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Kurt_Bremser
Super User

I can hardly imagine anyone displaying a label with 128 billion characters. Labels are something for human consumption.

 

And contrary to your post, there IS a 120 character length limit on SPSS labels: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/120-character-limitation-using-spss-adding-value-labels-syntax 

 


@philippe777 wrote:

Hi, 

 

I am trying to export a data set from SAS to SPSS and Excel. 

 

Everything work fine except for the length of the variable label. 

 

SPSS is limit to 128gb in the export (it is not a SPSS limit) and for Excel this is 256 (not a Excel limit). 

 

Here is my code. 

 

proc export data = PH2017c
outfile="C:\Users.xlsx"
dbms=xlsx
replace;
run;

 

proc export data = PH2017c
outfile="C:\Users"
dbms=spss replace;
fmtlib=library.formats;
run;

 

Thanks 


 

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