Date:         Wed, 5 Nov 2008 06:54:29 -0800
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From:         david_izrael@ABTASSOC.COM
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Subject:      reading flat file with varying length
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I am trying this as usual

data notes;
length all $500 ;
  infile in length=lenvar;
  input @1 all $varying. lenvar;
run;

but, to my surprise, the max length it reads is 256 while my records
are longer.

What could it be?

Thanks
David