How to define the length of a character variable in loadTable action?

[Meilan]

I am using loadTable action to import data from a .csv file. I have many character variables and I want to define a fixed length for them.

Is there a way to define the length of the character variables (equivalent to 'RawLength' of the output) in loadTable? 

Thank you!

[JosvanderVelden · Accepted solution]

Starting with Viya 3.4 you can use informat in the loadTable action. There is an example in the documentation: https://documentation.sas.com/?cdcId=pgmsascdc&cdcVersion=9.4_3.5&docsetId=caspg&docsetTarget=p15gor...

[Meilan]

Thank you so much!

I learned from the documentation that besides 'informat', I can also use 'length' to solve my problem.