Date:         Tue, 21 Sep 1999 21:33:01 +0100
Reply-To:     John Whittington <medisci@POWERNET.COM>
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From:         John Whittington <medisci@POWERNET.COM>
Subject:      Re: label length
Comments: To: José Ailton Alencar andrade
          <andrade@INEP.GOV.BR>
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At 17:15 21/09/99 -0300, José Ailton Alencar andrade wrote:

>    I am using SAS 6.12 for windows/NT. I would like to work with
>label´s lengths of 200 or more characters, but up to I know SAS no more
>than 30 characters. Is there any any of work with big variable labels?
>    My interest is only print my data into sas output.

José, nothing will enable you to have SAS variable labels that long.
However, if what you are interested in is getting long 'column titles'
(presumably split over more than one line) in a printout of the data, then
using PROC REPORT, rather than PROC PRINT, might be your answer.

Regards,


John

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