'Local' LRECL for long string of a variable

[SIgnificatif]

Hi All.

I have a variable with long strings.
I have read a response of a community contributor that covers the problem and how to fix it if the data is IMPORTED from a file
 (https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Lrecl-and-Extra-Pipeline-in-SAS-output/m-p/39875... ) 

I have an issue because I have many values in a variable I want to proceed locally ( I write them in the code) and I'm getting this message:

NOTE: The quoted string currently being processed has become more than 262 characters long. You might have unbalanced quotation

and the code is just a variable I'm running a loop from it to print the values:

mybar"text1|text|text2|text3|text1|text|text2|text3|text1|text|text2|text3|text1|text|text2|text3|text1|text|text2|text3|text1|text|text2|text3|";

anyone could give an opinion how to process all values and make that message dissapear from the log 🙂

Thanks

[Tom · Accepted solution]

If you want to write code that has a really long string constant you can turn off the option that generates the message about stings longer than 262 characters. 

Or you can write your constant as a combination of two or more shorter constants.

mybar"text1|text|text2|text3|text1|text|text2|text3|text1|text|text2"
  || "|text3|text1|text|text2|text3|text1|text|text2|text3|text1|text"
  || "|text2|text3|"
;

[SIgnificatif]

Thank you for the response :).

Sincerley.