This must be a standard issue, but I can not find the solution anywhere. I have 80-column data that is delimited, but each record may take up numerous ASCII file lines. To signal that the record continues there is a continuation character in column 80. My solution was to count the number of delimiters in a record and then use the flowover option. The problem is that a variable can be split onto multiple lines of the ASCII text file. How can I make SAS ignore the end of line and keep reading data into a single variable until it hits the next delimiter? Currently it seems that SAS treats the file as delimited both by my delimiting character and by the CR at the end of each text line.

TIA, Justin