"DLen" in SAS System Viewer

[KoiSAS]

Hi,

Some of our clients use SAS System Viewer to examine transport files. What is the meaning of the column DLen?

Thanks,

Laura

[Tom]

LENGTH is the storage length of the internal value.  DLen is the length of the formatted value.

So normally a numeric variable will have LENGTH=8.  If the FORMAT is set to F12. then the display length would be 12.