| Date: | Tue, 11 Dec 2001 09:35:48 -0500 |
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| Reply-To: | Jim Agnew <agnew@HSC.VCU.EDU> |
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| Sender: | "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> |
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| From: | Jim Agnew <agnew@HSC.VCU.EDU> |
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| Organization: | Virginia Commonwealth University |
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| Subject: | Re: SAS Quote of the week |
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tell me about it, when "they" use 200 char vars and i'm trying to do a
simple proc print...
ick...
jim
Roland wrote:
>
> Nigel Tufnel <dousk8@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote in message
> news:F109DrXBi7lEmHJ1UGp000039ef@hotmail.com...
> > "..trim() every freaking char var in the entire program..."
> >
> > This is hilarous!
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> It is also futile since it makes no difference. It only takes effect when
> you are concatenating character variables. All character variables (does not
> apply to macro variables) are padded out with spaces. After they are
> "trimmed", they will still be padded out with spaces. That is the way SAS
> works, for some odd reason.
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