Informats for NLS

$UNCRw. Informat

Reads an NCR character string, and then converts the character string to the encoding of the current SAS session.

Category:

Character

Syntax

$UNCRw.

w

specifies the width of the input field.

Default:	8
Range:	1-32000

The input string must contain only characters and NCR. Any national characters must be represented in NCR.

The $UNCRw. informat performs processing that is opposite of the $UNCREw. informat.

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

Statements	Result
	----+----1----+
x=input ('大', $uncr10.); y=input('abc', $uncr10); put X; put Y;	abc

Statements

Result

----+----1----+

x=input ('大', $uncr10.);

y=input('abc', $uncr10);

put X;

put Y;

abc