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ATTRIB

ATTRIB

Associates a format, informat, label, or length or all four with one or more variables

Language element: statement

Valid: in a DATA step

OpenVMS specifics: length specification

Syntax
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Syntax

ATTRIB variable-list-1 attribute-list-1

< . . . variable-list-n attribute-list-n>;

variable-list

names the variables that you want to associate with the attributes.

attribute-list

specifies one or more attributes to assign to variable-list. Specify one or more of these attributes in the the ATTRIB statement:

FORMAT=format: associates a format with variables in variable-list.
INFORMAT=informat: associates an informat with variables in variable-list.
LABEL='label': associates a label with varuables in variable-list.
LENGTH=<$>length: specifies the length of variables in variable-list. A dollar sign ($) is required in front of the length of character variables. For character variables, the value of length is 1 to 32,767. For numeric variables, the value of length is 3 on the Alpha platform and 2 on the VAX platform.

Under OpenVMS Alpha, the minimum length that you can specify for a numeric variable is 3 bytes.

Under OpenVMS VAX, the minimum length that you can specify for a numeric variable is 2 bytes.

See Also

ATTRIB statement in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary

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