Hi! I'm trying to rename some observations in my school_name variable. Currently, the school names look like this:   I want to rename them to look like this:  In the data step, my code looks like this:  length school_name $ 30; if school_name = "Washington Elem" then School_Name = "Washington Elementary School"; if school_name = "Lin coln School" then School_Name = "Lincoln Elementary School"; if school_name = "Adams Elem" then School_Name = "Adams Elementary School"; if school_name = "Jackson" then School_Name = "Jackson Elementary School"; However, after renaming, it looks like this:    Why do they get truncated? I added that line  length school_name $ 30; in the hopes of the names not being truncated, but it didn't change anything. ... View more

Hi! I'm new to SAS and mostly programmed in Java before. In Eclipse, you adjust the settings so that there would be a line signalling a certain number of characters, so you wouldn't write lines of code that were too long and unreadable.    Is there something similar in SAS EG? I'd like to make my code more clear/consistent, especially long block comments. ... View more