Any reason to limit var names to 8 characters?
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From: Ted Clay on 31 Dec 2009 12:07 Please post a reply if you can think of any reason to limit your SAS variable names to 8 characters. The only reason I know of is to be compatible with version 6 of SAS. In converting a SAS data set to a different format, are there other commonly used systems that would truncate variable names to 8 characters? |