$OCTALw. Format

Converts character data to octal representation.

Category: Character
Alignment: Left

Syntax

$OCTALw.

Arguments

w

specifies the width of the output field.

Default The default width is calculated based on the length of the variable to be printed.
Range 1–32767
Tip Because each character value generates three octal characters, increase the value of w by three times the length of the character value.

Comparisons

The $OCTALw. format converts character values to the octal representation of their character codes. The OCTALw. format converts numeric values to octal representation.

Example

Statements
Results
 
----+----1----+----2
select put ('art', $octal15.);
141162164040040
select put ('rice', $octal15.);
162151143145040
select put ('bank', $octal15.);
162151143145040

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