Informats for NLS

$UNCREw. Informat

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

Category:

Character

Syntax

$UNCREw.

w

specifies the width of the input field.

Default:	8
Range:	1-32000

The output string will be converted to plain characters and NCR. Any national characters will be converted to NCR.

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

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

Statements	Result
	----+----1----+
x=input (' abc', $uncre12.); put x;	大abc

Statements

Result

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

x=input (' [untitled graphic]

abc', $uncre12.);

put x;

&#22823;abc