Associates a format, informat, label, and length with one or more
variables
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in a DATA step
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length specification
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ATTRIB variable-list-1
attribute-list-1...<variable-list-n attribute-list-n>;
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Note:
Following is a simplified explanation of the ATTRIB
statement syntax. For the complete syntax and its explanation, see the ATTRIB statement in SAS Language Reference:
Dictionary. ![[cautend]](../common/images/cautend.gif)
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attribute-list
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LENGTH=<$>length
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specifies the length of the variables in variable-list. Under Windows, the length you can specify for a numeric variable ranges from 3 to
8 bytes.
Using the ATTRIB statement in the DATA step permanently associates attributes with variables by changing the descriptor
information of the SAS data set that contains the variables.
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