The truncation is caused by the INPUT statement specification $ implies length $8 unless the length is established some other way. It seems that GCHART does not have ORDER=DATA so an AXIS statement and the MAXIS= option are used to order the bars.

data means1; INPUT Quote_type :$16. y ; Cards; Food 91.5 Housing 89.2 Apparel 55.4 Transportation 89.8 Medical 70.6 Recreation 84.2 Education 88.2 Other 91.2 ;;;; RUN;

axis1 order=('Food' 'Housing' 'Apparel' 'Transportation' 'Medical' 'Recreation' 'Education' 'Other');

TITLE 'Bar Graph '; proc gchart data=means1; vbar Quote_type / legend=legend1 sumvar=y discrete raxis=0 to 100 by 10 maxis=axis1; label y="RR"; run; quit;

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Randall Powers <powers_r@bls.gov> wrote: > Note: Sorry, forgot the code in previous post. > > Hello All, > > Sorry if I already posted this. I honestly can't recall, and don't see it > listed. > > The code below produces a bar graph. It truncates the labels names of the > bars to eight characters (e.g. "transporation" gets truncated > to "transpor", and alphabetizes them. I wish for the full names, and for > the order in which the are input. How do I make these changes? > > Thanks! > > > data means1; > > INPUT Quote_type $ y ; > CARDS; > > Food 91.5 > Housing 89.2 > Apparel 55.4 > Transportation 89.8 > Medical 70.6 > Recreation 84.2 > Education 88.2 > Other 91.2 > > > ; > RUN; > > > TITLE 'Bar Graph '; > proc gchart data=means1; > vbar Quote_type / legend=legend1 sumvar=y discrete raxis=0 to 100 by 10; > label y="RR" > ; > run; > quit; >