Exam A00-211 topic 1 question 3 discussion

The following SAS program is submitted:
data work.accounting;
set work.dept1 work.dept2;
jobcode = FA1;
length jobcode $ 8;
run;
A character variable named JOBCODE is contained in both the WORK.DEPT1 and WORK.DEPT2 SAS data sets. The variable JOBCODE has a length of 5 in the
WORK.DEPT1 data set and a length of 7 in the WORK.DEPT2 data set. What is the length of the variable JOBCODE in the output data set?