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By admin | September 21, 2009

SAS Certified Base Programmer 123 Questions (64)

The following SAS DATA step is submitted:

data work.accountting;
    set work.department;
    length jobcode$ 12;
run;

The WORK.DEPARTMENT SAS data set contains a character variable named JOBCODE with a length of 5.

Which one of the following is the length of the variable JOBCODE in the output data set?

A. 5
B. 8
C. 12
D. The length can not be determined as the program fails to execute due to errors.

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admin - 09/21/2009 at 10:57 am
A
sowmya - 12/21/2010 at 9:22 pm
Can some one please explain this…
sameer - 04/21/2011 at 8:00 am
the length would change only if the length statement was before the set statement