SAS Informats under Windows

ZDw.d Informat: Windows

Reads zoned decimal data.

Category	numeric
Width range:	1-32
Default width:	1
Decimal range:	1-10
Windows specifics:	Last byte includes the sign
See:	ZDw.d Informat in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary

Syntax
Details
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Syntax

ZDw.d

w: specifies the width of the input field.
d: specifies the power of 10 by which to divide the input value. If the data contain decimal points, then SAS ignores the d value.

Details

This method is also known as an overprint trailing numeric format. Under Windows, the last byte of the field contains the sign information of the number. The following table gives the conversion for the last byte:

Digit	ASCII Character	Digit	ASCII Character
0	{	-0	}
1	A	-1	J
2	B	-2	K
3	C	-3	L
4	D	-4	M
5	E	-5	N
6	F	-6	O
7	G	-7	P
8	H	-8	Q
9	I	-9	R