How to prevent truncation of string?

[pmal]

I am trying to import text file (txt; coma delimited; char variable in double quotes into SAS (v8) dataset. Text file has a char variable with a length = 300. When data set is created data string in char variable is truncated up to 255. Is there any way to avoid trucation of the data?

 

[ChrisW75]

Use a length statement to set the length of the variable you are reading in.

  length char_variable $300;