Formats for NLS

$UNCRw. Format

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

Category:	Character
Alignment:	left

Syntax
Syntax Description
Comparison
Examples
See Also

Syntax

$UNCRw.

Syntax Description

w

specifies the width of the output field.

Default:	8
Range:	1-32000

Comparison

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

Examples

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

Statements	Results
	----+----1----+----2
x='91E5'x ; /* Japanese ' ' in Shift-JIS */ y='abc'; put x $uncr10.; put y $uncr10.;	&#22823 abc

Statements

Results

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

x='91E5'x ; /* Japanese ' [untitled graphic]

' in Shift-JIS */

y='abc';

put x $uncr10.;

put y $uncr10.;

&#22823

abc