Import field length limit?

[Joe Chasan]

>From help file:
PFIMPBUF = n
 
(4.1) Increase the maximum record length for importing ASCII files.
Values: 1024 <= n <= 32767 (16-bit systems) or 2147483468 (32-bit)

Default: 10000 (1024 for earlier than version 5.6) 

-joe

On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 09:29:39AM -0400, scooter6--- via Filepro-list wrote:
> Is there a limit how many characters can be in an import field?  This is an
> import of a pipe delimited file with about 80 fields, some of which can be
> extremely long
> 
> 5.6.10R4 on CentOS for clarity
> 
> It seems I've encountered an issue with some pretty long import field
> lengths - if there is a limit, what is the limit?
> 
> thanks all
> 
> Scott
> PDM
> 
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