Formats

$OCTALw. Format

Converts character data to octal representation.

Category:	Character
Alignment:	left

Syntax
Syntax Description
Comparisons
Example

Syntax

$OCTALw.

Syntax Description

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
Tip:	Because each character value generates three octal characters, increase the value of w by three times the length of the character value.

Comparisons

The $OCTALw. format converts character values to the octal representation of their character codes. The OCTALw. format converts numeric values to octal representation.

Example

The following example shows ASCII output when you use the $OCTALw. format.

data _null_;
   infile datalines truncover;
   input item $5.;
   put item $octal15.;
   datalines;
art
rice 
bank
;
run;

SAS writes the following results to the log.

141162164040040
162151143145040
142141156153040

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