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bjbreitling
Calcite | Level 5

Hi Community,

I have a legend for the group variable in a Scatter plot in SGPLOT.  I have a character variable of 18 characters length that I stored and I want to see the entire name in the legend but it only show the first 8 characters.  How can I see more characters?

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Cynthia_sas
Diamond | Level 26

Hi:

  I'm not certain what's happening. You might want to check with Tech Support. When I use the code below, I see all my characters in the legend (SAS 9.4).
      

Cynthia      
    

data class;

  set sashelp.class;

  grp=catx('~',sex,age,'big_bunch_of_characters');

run;

    

title 'Big Bunch of Characters in Legend';

proc sgplot data=class;

  scatter x=height y=weight / group=grp;

run;


very_long_legend.png

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Cynthia_sas
Diamond | Level 26

Hi:

  I'm not certain what's happening. You might want to check with Tech Support. When I use the code below, I see all my characters in the legend (SAS 9.4).
      

Cynthia      
    

data class;

  set sashelp.class;

  grp=catx('~',sex,age,'big_bunch_of_characters');

run;

    

title 'Big Bunch of Characters in Legend';

proc sgplot data=class;

  scatter x=height y=weight / group=grp;

run;


very_long_legend.png
bjbreitling
Calcite | Level 5

Not sure either, I printed the table itself and saw a few of that variable had the last character or 2 cut off so I made the variable two characters longer and it worked.

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