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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Q27

The following SAS DATA step is submitted:

data work.accounting;
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 cannot be determined as the program fails to execute due to errors.

13 comments:

SASGuru said...

Answer: A

Since SAS sees the jobcode to be 5 chars before it reads in the length statement…
If the length statement were before the set statement…then this would have set the length to 12 chars.
Try this…
data department;
jobcode='ABCDE';
run;

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

Unknown said...

correct i agree with sasguru

Rujuta........ said...

answer is A

siva said...

Answer is D.Its fail to execute.

Unknown said...

ANS: is A

Ryan Lo said...

It has warning message as following:
WARNING: Length of character variable jobcode has already been set. Use the LENGTH statement as the very first statement in the DATA STEP to declare the length of a character variable.

But it is continue running. Length of variable Jobcode remains 5 bytes. Therefore the answer is A.

Unknown said...

A

Unknown said...

A

Stevina Rumao said...

Ans A

H. C. said...
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Unknown said...

A

Unknown said...

Answer: A
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