> Running a piece of code, originally developed under Unix, under > Windows. The dataset has >7,000 fields, which need to be formatted. > However, only 4,096 format statements will load without crashing the > datastep. It works OK without the format statements. I can't find any > reference to an OS-specific limit on number of format statements.

I'm not aware of any limitations either. But: you normally don't need a format in a data step since most formats are used for humans. And I guess your friend won't print 7000 variables at once.

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