Refers to anything whose length can vary
Refers to anything whose length can vary
Questions tagged [variable-length]
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Changing a variable length without getting a warning
I have a variable called ID on dataset OLD, and I need to change the length from 13 to 12 for a merge. Below is the metadata associated with this variable.
Variable Type Len Format Informat Label
ID Char 13 $12. $12. 'Person ID'
(The…
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Creating a dataframe by concatenating substrings of non-uniform lengths
The raw data (.txt) file has 65926 elements, each containing a 142 character string.
Here's the dropbox link to the raw data file.
The task is to divide that 142 character string into 37 smaller strings (each substring being a separate character…
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How to get string length in qmake
Lets say we have a variable VAR in a qmake pro file. How to get the VAR content length? I tried to use bash syntax {#$VAR}.
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Value of macro variable as length of another variable?
I am new to SAS and didn't find an answer to my question. Maybe this community would/could be so Kind to help me.
Is it possible to define the value of a macro variable as the length of another variable? I do know that the value of a macro is…
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Issue in T-SQL while checking null variable
I am writing a trigger in SQL Server like this
DECLARE @N_CATComp smallint, @EXON varchar(69), @DATEDEB varchar(15), @DATEFIN varchar(15)
SELECT
@N_CATComp = N_CATCompta,
@EXON =[Exon N°],
@DATEDEB = CONVERT(varchar(15), [Date début]…
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Parsing String into multiple variable length String (C#)
I am currently trying to convert a VB6 program into C#. There was extensive use of string splitting into structure. For example,
Dim Sample AS String
Sample = "John Doe New York Test Comment"
Public Type Struct1
Name As String * 15
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How to put vectors with different length together to one matrix
I’ve got a data frame like this:
id class
146 H02J
146 F03D
146 F03D
287 F16F
287 F16F
1040 F03D
1040 …
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illegal vector field selection length
I am receiving this error on a pc where I cannot have access.
The error is on the Vertex Shader of the init program of the depth peeling technique.
ERROR: 0:42: error(#222) Illegal vector field selection length
ERROR: 0:42: error(#222) Illegal…
elect
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What is best way to implement variable length arrays?
I want to store a large result set from database in memory. Every record has variable length and access time must be as fast as arrays. What is the best way to implement this? I was thinking of keeping offsets in a separate table and storing all of…
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How do I use the answer of an .length object count in an if statement?
I want to have some dynamics in my creation and therefor need jQuery to count the times a div appears within a different div and based upon the answer executes a function; change css to be exact.
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Variable length Blob in hibernate?
I have a byte[] member in one of my persistable classes. Normally, I'd just annotate it with @Lob and @Column(name="foo", size=). In this particular case, however, the length of the byte[] can vary a lot (from ~10KB all the way up to ~100MB).
If I…
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How to create a variadic (with variable length argument list) function wrapper in JavaScript
The intention is to build a wrapper to provide a consistent method of calling native functions with variable arity on various script hosts - so that the script could be executed in a browser as well as in the Windows Script Host or other script…
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How to FTP a variable length file from linux to mainframe z/OS
I could not FTP a variable length file to mainframe; the operation was success, but the dataset generated on mainframe is not correct; can anyone help me.
procedures.
I have created a variable length dataset on…
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How to have a container-like way of adding variable lenght data in C
In C, I would like to have a structure which would receive, from time to time, new data of a particular kind (lets say a float value that tells the current temperature). Now the problem is that I don't know how many of such data I'll get over time…
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SAS why invalid data length
data temp;
length a 1 b 3 x;
infile '';
input a b x;
run;
The answer said "The data set TEMP is not created because variable A has an invalid length".
Why it's invalid in this small program?
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