$BINARYw. Format

Converts character data to binary representation.

Category: Character
Alignment: Left

Syntax

$BINARYw.

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

Comparisons

The $BINARYw. format converts character values to binary representation. The BINARYw. format converts numeric values to binary representation.

Example

Statements
Results
ASCII
EBCDIC
----+----1----+----2
----+----1----+----2
select put('AB', $binary16.);
0100000101000010
1100000111000010

See Also

Last updated: February 23, 2017