Date:         Sat, 28 Jun 2003 09:47:23 +0100
Reply-To:     Roland <roland@RASHLEIGH-BERRY.FSNET.CO.UK>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Roland <roland@RASHLEIGH-BERRY.FSNET.CO.UK>
Organization: Universe Monitors
Subject:      Re: Character variables concatenation

You could do a little test like this........

9    data _null_;
10     length a b c $ 8;
11     a='a';b='b';c='c';
12     newvar=trim(a)||trim(b)||trim(c);
13     put newvar=;
14     len=vlength(newvar);
15     put len=;
16   run;

newvar=abc
len=24

"Jeff Morison" <jmt_mtf@YAHOO.COM> wrote in message
news:20030627211322.50490.qmail@web40802.mail.yahoo.com...
>    What happens if we don't specify length statement
> for a new character variable which is obtained by
> concatenating 3 existing character variables?, what
> would be the length of new var?, and what's the max
> length the new vairable can assume?.
>
> TIA,
> Jeff
>
>
>
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