Tom, Your above code solved our issue with the sample file; however, when I apply the code to our full file there appears to be additional returns. The master file contains 262 fields, 250,000+ rows, and is well under the maximum string length. I applied your code to a smaller file with only 16 fields and 6 records(changing the first infile statement and length, input, and put statements in the second data step to 16). The code corrected our problem, but when applied to all 262 fields for 6 records and changing the length to $20000 I get linefeeds where previously there weren't any.
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