@buechler66 wrote: No, the number of lines will vary. And if you read my latest reply I hit a new wrinkle that leaves me wondering if I can do this task at all using DATALINES.
Crossed time. Your post of your actual problem was not there when I posted by my response.
Why datalines at all? Read a text file.
And from the character count of some of the code I see on this forum I'm not sure I would expect every single Proc Sql call to fit into a single variable to begin with.
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