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List:       sas-l
Subject:    Re: Character variables concatenation
From:       "Fehd, Ronald J. (PHPPO)" <rjf2 () CDC ! GOV>
Date:       2003-06-30 13:20:13
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> From: Jeff Morison [mailto:jmt_mtf@YAHOO.COM]
> What happens if we don't specify length statement
> for a new character variable

why, you'd be guilty of the one of the
Seven Deadly Sins of SAS programming:
* letting SAS defaults happen

Ron Fehd  the macro maven  CDC Atlanta GA USA RJF2@cdc.gov

RTFM: I'm an engineer,
      I don't get paid to use SAS defaults,
      I get paid to write compleat data structures.

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