how to keep data set name more than 32 letters and also how write variable name more than 32 letters

[thanikondharish]

data gggggggggggggggggggggggggg_yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy ;
set sashelp.class ;
run;

if i run above program i am getting error so how keep 32 characters length.

kindly help me.

[LinusH]

Say what now?
I mean, just reduce the name to 32 chars...?

[Kurt_Bremser]

Because that is a hard limit in SAS. Read the documentation.

[FreelanceReinh]

Put the intended long names into labels and keep the actual names <=32 characters long.

data test(label='This dataset label could be up to 256 characters long!');
a=1;
label a='This variable label could be up to 256 characters long!';
run;

proc contents data=test;
run;

[VDD]

think about it before you make the file names, make that mean something rather than tell a story.

In the years past you only got a length of 8.

what are you going to do when  256 length is not enough

Sloppy kids.