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Informats for NLS

$UESCw. Informat



Reads a character string that is encoded in UESC representation, and then converts the character string to the encoding of the current SAS session.
Category: Character

Syntax
Syntax Description
Details
Comparisons
Examples
See Also

Syntax

$UESCw.


Syntax Description

w

specifies the width of the output field.

Default: 8
Range: 1-32000

Details

If the characters are not available on all operating environments, for example, 0-9, a-z, A-Z, they must be represented in UESC representation. The $UESCw. informat can be nested.


Comparisons

The $UESCw. informat performs processing that is the opposite of the $UESCEw. informat.


Examples

These examples use the Japanese Shift_JIS encoding, which is supported under the UNIX operating system.

Statements Results

----+----1----+
x=input('¥u5927', $uesc10.);
y=input('¥uu5927', $uesc10.);
z=input('¥uuu5927', $uesc10.);
put x;
put y;
put z;
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¥u5927
¥uu5927


See Also

Formats:

$UESCw. Format

$UESCEw. Format

Informats:

$UESCEw. Informat

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