Max no of delimiters on INFILE statement

[Sanchit_goyal]

How many delimiters can we define in dlm = '' option in the infile statement ?

[Kurt_Bremser]

See the documentation of the INFILE Statement

You can define multiple delimiting characters with the DLM= option.

[Sanchit_goyal]

but there is a specific number to it right, like I guess 200 or 256 delimiters we can mention in delimiter option in the infile statement

[Kurt_Bremser]

Well, with 256 delimiters there's nothing left to delimit, so that's not even a limit that makes sense.

For all practical purposes, there is no limit you need to take care of, and there is none mentioned in the documentation.

[ballardw]

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@Sanchit_goyal wrote:
but there is a specific number to it right, like I guess 200 or 256 delimiters we can mention in delimiter option in the infile statement

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Delimiters are single character. So too many delimiters, to get to 200 you would exhaust every letter, digit and punctuation character, means practically every character is a delimiter. Which is likely to be particularly useless as you would not have much data when done. 

Examine the result of this code using many delimiters:

data example;
   infile datalines dlm=' abcdefABCDEF123456' missover;
   input x $   ;
datalines;
abc
123
a1b2c3
aaa 333
;

Or are you wanting the DLMSTR option where groups of characters are a single delimiter?