Formats for NLS

$UESCw. Format

Processes a character string that is encoded in the current SAS session, and then writes the character string in Unicode escape (UESC) representation.

Category:	Character
Alignment:	left

Syntax
Syntax Description
Details
Comparisons
Examples
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Syntax

$UESCw.

Syntax Description

w

specifies the width of the input 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. $UESCw. can be nested.

Comparisons

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

Examples

This example uses the Japanese Shift_JIS encoding, which is supported under the UNIX operating system.

Statements	Results
	----+----1----+----2
x=' ' ; y='u5927' z='uu5927'; put x = $uesc10. ; put y = $uesc10. ; put z = $uesc10. ;	¥u5927 ¥uu5927 ¥uuu5927

Statements

Results

----+----1----+----2

x='

' ;

y='u5927'

z='uu5927';

put x = $uesc10. ;

put y = $uesc10. ;

put z = $uesc10. ;

¥u5927

¥uu5927

¥uuu5927