topic Re: How to identify length of the input file in SAS Programming https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-identify-length-of-the-input-file/m-p/112299#M23230 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks Anca.. You are correct. It works fine</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:11:44 GMT DPraba79 2013-01-02T20:11:44Z How to identify length of the input file https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-identify-length-of-the-input-file/m-p/112297#M23228 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi All,</P><P></P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I am using windows SAS. One of my input file is TXT file, i have to add 1-byte file-flag at the end of the each records. So i want to know how to get input file LENGTH??? </P><P></P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp; I will use _infile_ with dummy INPUT. But i have to know the input file length for some other purpose.</P><P></P><P>&nbsp; Could you please help to how to identify input file length??</P><P></P><P>Thanks,</P><P>Prabakaran</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:17:54 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-identify-length-of-the-input-file/m-p/112297#M23228 DPraba79 2013-01-02T19:17:54Z Re: How to identify length of the input file https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-identify-length-of-the-input-file/m-p/112298#M23229 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi.</P><P></P><P>You could use in your infile statement ...</P><P></P><P>infile "\\...\test.txt"<STRONG> LENGTH=LRECL; *this will give you the length of EACH record;</STRONG></P><P><STRONG><BR /></STRONG></P><P>Is this helpful?</P><P></P><P>Good luck,</P><P>Anca.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:50:22 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-identify-length-of-the-input-file/m-p/112298#M23229 AncaTilea 2013-01-02T19:50:22Z Re: How to identify length of the input file https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-identify-length-of-the-input-file/m-p/112299#M23230 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks Anca.. You are correct. It works fine</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:11:44 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-identify-length-of-the-input-file/m-p/112299#M23230 DPraba79 2013-01-02T20:11:44Z