SAS Viya 3.5 Store Characters Beyond 32K Limit

[avhenao]

Hello everyone!!

I'm trying to import a text file corresponding to a legal document. The file has approximately 125,000 characters in total, across almost 2,000 lines. I have managed to load the file to CAS into a table with one observation per record.

What I need to do is to concatenate all the data into a single variable, e.g.:

If the file contains the following:

This
is
a
sample
text

I want to get a dataset consisting of one variable and one row, like this:

Text

This is a sample text

I have come up with the following code:

cas mySession sessopts=(caslib=casuser timeout=1800 locale="en_US" metrics=true);
libname myCas cas caslib=casuser;
filename archivo "/path/to/file/file.txt" ;

data myCas.archivo1;
	length linea varchar(*);
	infile archivo 
		delimiter='0D0A'x
        DSD 
	;
	input linea $;
run;


data myCas.archivo2(drop=linea);
    length linea texto varchar(*);
    set myCas.archivo1 end=eof;
    retain texto;
	if not missing(linea) then
		texto = catx(" ",texto,linea);
    if eof then output;
run;

But, the resulting variable "texto" contains only 37486 characters.

Thanks a lot, guys!

Andres V.

[avhenao · Accepted solution]

Hello guys!

I made it! I mchange the code a little bit, so the file was imported to WORK and then to CAS

cas mySession sessopts=(caslib=casuser timeout=1800 locale="en_US");
libname myCas cas caslib=casuser ;
filename archivo "/path/to/file/prueba1.txt" ;

data archivo1;
	length linea $200;
	infile archivo 
		delimiter='0A'x
        DSD
		missover
	;
	input linea $;
run;

data myCas.archivo2(drop=linea);
    length texto varchar(*);
    set archivo1 end=eof;
    retain texto;
	if not missing(linea) then
		texto = catx(" ",texto,linea);
    if eof then output;
run;

And these are the results:

Thanks a lot!