Loading a field of length( 60 and up to 2048) from flat file to BW.

Hello,
Can you please suggests ways by which we can load a field in flat file which is of length greater than 60 and up to 2048 digits to BW.
Facts:
We cannot have more than 59 length digits in an infoobject
Observations:
The idea of using multiple infoobject,ie for 2048 max length it will be 35 infoobjects is not acceptable by my client.
So, can anyone suggests other ways in BW3.5 for loading a text of length up to 2048 from flat file to BW.

Hi,
If you have source field DD/MM/YYYY format, please try this code in the field routine.
Data : lv_date(8) type C.
lv_date0(4) = <Source Field Name>6(4).
lv_date4(2) = <Source Field Name>3(2).
lv_date6(2) = <Source Field Name>0(2).
RESULT = LV_DATE.
Thanks,
Saru
Edited by: P. Saravana Kumar on Apr 19, 2009 2:38 PM

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