I'm having trouble reading a delimited text file with varying length fields longer than 8 characters. It seems that SAS truncates the character field after the 8th character. For example, a text file record like:

100,9999,bill,hello world,755

read with the following SAS program:

Data Junk; infile raw dlm=','; input num1 num2 name $ comment $ num3; run;

Gives the following results:

num1 num2 name comment num3; 100 9999 bill hello w orld755

I'm sure that I am missing something simple here.

Thanks -------------------------------------- David Boylan Corporate Forecasting UtiliCorp United, Inc. 816.467.3062 --------------------------------------