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Problem Note 57769: The FILENAME statement, CLIPBOARD Access Method does not support reading records with a length greater than 256
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The FILENAME statement, CLIPBOARD Access Method does not support reading records with a length greater than 256. When you encounter this problem, you see a record length of 256 in the note rather than the length that you specified in the LRECL system option. Here is an example note:
NOTE: 256 records were read from the infile CLIP.
The minimum record length was 44.
The maximum record length was 256.
To work around this problem, you must read in a record in multiple pieces, using code similar to the following:
options lrecl=300;
filename out clipbrd;
data _null_;
length txt $300;
file out;
txt = repeat('x',300);
put txt;
run;
filename out clear;
filename clippy clipbrd;
data _null_;
infile clippy length=l end=eof;
input @;
input @1 line $varying300. l;
put l=;
put line=;
if l=255 or eof then total+l;
if eof then put total=;
run;
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Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | Base SAS | Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise x64 | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro x64 | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise 32-bit | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64 | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 32-bit | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 10 | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Std | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Std | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| Linux for x64 | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| Solaris for x64 | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||