Hi,
How to assign length to constant char var? My code didn't work
proc sql;
select 'abc' as name char(20)
from xxx
;
Thanks.
Try
proc sql;
select 'abc' as name length=20
from xxx
;
quit;
EJ
Thank you so much!
IN SAS, since the value is in quotes you do not have to "declare" the variable as character as with some other languages. If you so desired you could change the length of numeric variables in the same way, but that comes with the lost of precision when moving from 8 bytes.
EJ
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