Import field length limit?

[scooter6 at gmail.com]

Thanks - had no idea that parameter existed
Learned something new

Appreciate your help - I think this works well now



On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 9:36 AM Joe Chasan <joe at magnatechonline.com> wrote:

> 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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