PEEKLONG Function: Windows
Stores the contents of a memory address in a numeric
variable on 32-bit and 64-bit platforms.
| Category: |
Special |
| Windows specifics: |
all |
| See: |
PEEKLONG Function in SAS Functions and CALL Routines: Reference and PEEKCLONG Function in SAS Functions and CALL Routines: Reference |
| CAUTION: |
The PEEKLONG
functions can directly access memory addresses. Improper use of the
PEEKLONG functions can cause SAS, and your operating system, to fail.
Use the PEEKLONG functions
only to access information that is returned by one of the MODULE functions.
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Syntax
PEEKLONG(address<,length)>
Details
specifies a character
expression that is the memory address.
specifies the length
of the character data.
Comparisons
The PEEKLONG function
returns a value of length
length that contains the data that start at memory address
address.
The variations of the
PEEKLONG functions are
accesses character
strings.
Usually, when you need
to use one of the PEEKLONG functions, you will use PEEKCLONG to access
a character string.