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Reading Free-Format Data
Changing the Length of Character Values
 


Question:


Write a LENGTH statement that defines an appropriate length for the variable FirstName, whose values are shown in the first field below.

1---+----10---+----20---+----
Katherine  OCT23   145  3022
Marjorie   OCT13   155  1235
Richard    OCT24   178  1250

 

           

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