<div dir="ltr">Thanks - had no idea that parameter existed<div>Learned something new</div><div><br></div><div>Appreciate your help - I think this works well now</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 9:36 AM Joe Chasan <<a href="mailto:joe@magnatechonline.com">joe@magnatechonline.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">From help file:<br>
PFIMPBUF = n<br>
<br>
(4.1) Increase the maximum record length for importing ASCII files.<br>
Values: 1024 <= n <= 32767 (16-bit systems) or 2147483468 (32-bit)<br>
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Default: 10000 (1024 for earlier than version 5.6) <br>
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-joe<br>
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On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 09:29:39AM -0400, scooter6--- via Filepro-list wrote:<br>
> Is there a limit how many characters can be in an import field?  This is an<br>
> import of a pipe delimited file with about 80 fields, some of which can be<br>
> extremely long<br>
> <br>
> 5.6.10R4 on CentOS for clarity<br>
> <br>
> It seems I've encountered an issue with some pretty long import field<br>
> lengths - if there is a limit, what is the limit?<br>
> <br>
> thanks all<br>
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> Scott<br>
> PDM<br>
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