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Informats

S370FRBw.d Informat



Reads real binary (floating-point) data in IBM mainframe format.
Category: Numeric

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Syntax

S370FRBw.d

Syntax Description

w

specifies the width of the input field.

Default: 6
Range: 2-8
d

specifies the power of 10 by which to divide the value. This argument is optional.

Range: 0-10

Details

Real binary values are represented in two parts: a mantissa that gives the value, and an exponent that gives the value's magnitude.

Use S370FRBw.d to read real binary data from IBM mainframe files on other operating environments.


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Informat:

RBw.d Informat

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