The default length of numeric variables in SAS data sets is 8 bytes. (You can control the length of SAS numeric variables with the LENGTH statement in the DATA step.) In the SAS System under Windows, ...

TEXT stores character data of variable length up to two gigabytes. SAS supports the TEXT data type provided in SYBASE; however, SAS only allows a maximum of 32,767 bytes of character data.

For users who are just getting started with SAS solutions, it can be overwhelming to learn how to take the data you have collected and turn it into something readable and useful. Fortunately, SAS Data ...