Informats under UNIX |
Category: | Numeric |
Width range: | 1 to 8 |
Default width: | 4 |
Decimal range: | 0 to 10 |
UNIX specifics: | byte values |
See: | IBw.d informat in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary |
Details |
Details |
The IBw.d informat reads fixed-point binary values. For integer binary data, the high-order bit is the value's sign: 0 for positive values, 1 for negative. Negative values are represented in two's-complement notation. If the informat includes a d value, the data value is divided by 10d.
For more details, see Reading and Writing Binary Data in UNIX Environments.
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