Informats for NLS

$UPARENw. Informat

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

Category:

Character

Syntax
Syntax Description
Details
Comparisons
Examples
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Syntax

$UPARENw.

Syntax Description

w

specifies the width of the input field.

Default:	8
Range:	1-32000

Details

If the SAS session encoding does not have a corresponding Unicode expression, the expression will remain in encoding of the current SAS session.

Comparisons

The $UPARENw. informat performs processing that is opposite of the $UPARENEw. informat.

Examples

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

Statements	Results
v=input('<u0061>',$uparen10.); w=input('<u0062>',$uparen10.); x=input('<u0063>',$uparen10.); y=input('<u0033>',$uparen10.); z=input('<u5927>',$uparen10.); put v; put w; put x; put y; put z;	a b c 3

Statements

Results

v=input('<u0061>',$uparen10.);
w=input('<u0062>',$uparen10.);
x=input('<u0063>',$uparen10.);
y=input('<u0033>',$uparen10.);
z=input('<u5927>',$uparen10.);
put v;
put w;
put x;
put y;
put z;

a
b
c
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