Remember that when you use list input
to read raw data, character variables are assigned a default length
of 8. In this example, see what happens when list input is used to
read character variables whose values are longer than 8.
The raw data file referenced
by the fileref Citydata contains 2000 and 2010 population figures
for several large U.S. cities. Notice that some city names are rather
long.
The longer character
values are truncated when they are read into the program data vector.