Question & Answer
Question
How many characters can a string or numeric variable take in SPSS?
Answer
The maximum string width on SPSS versions V13 and later is now 32767.
The maximum numeric width on SPSS versions V13 and later is now 40.
Note:
For SPSS Version 12 and below, The maximum numeric width is 16 and the maximum string width is 255
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