Informats

$CBw. Informat

Reads standard character data from column-binary files.

Category:

Column Binary

Syntax
Syntax Description
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Syntax

$CBw.

Syntax Description

w

specifies the width of the input field.

Default:	none
Range:	1-32767

Details

Column-binary data storage compresses data so that more than 80 items of data can be stored on a single "virtual" punch card.

The $CBw. informat reads standard character data from column-binary files, with each card column represented in two bytes. The $CBw. informat translates the data into standard character codes. If the combinations are invalid punch codes, SAS returns blanks and sets the automatic variable _ERROR_ to 1.

Examples

input @1 name $cb2.;

Data Line*	Results
----+----1	EBCDIC	ASCII
200A	+	N
* The data line is a hexadecimal representation of the column binary. The "virtual" punch card column for the example data has row 12, row 6, and row 8 punched. The binary representation is 0010 0000 0000 1010.