Functions for NLS

Functions for NLS by Category

The following categories relate to NLS issues:

Categories of NLS Formats
Category	Description
Character	processes character data
Currency Conversion	converts one currency to another currency
DBCS	processes double-byte character set.
Date and Time	processes data and time data.
Locale	processes data based on the specified locale.
Variable Information	processes variable information.

The following table provides brief descriptions of the SAS functions. For more detailed descriptions, see the NLS entry for each function.

Summary of NLS Functions by Category
Category	Functions for NLS	Description
Character	KCVT Function	Converts data from one type of encoding data to another encoding data.
	TRANTAB Function	Transcodes data by using the specified translation table.
	UNICODE Function	converts Unicode characters to the current SAS session encoding.
	UNICODEC Function	converts characters in the current SAS session encoding to Unicode characters.
	UNICODELEN Function	specifies the length of the character unit for the Unicode data.
	UNICODEWIDTH Function	specifies the length of a display unit for the Unicode data.
DBCS	KCOMPARE Function	Returns the result of a comparison of character expressions.
	KCOMPRESS Function	Removes specified characters from a character expression.
	KCOUNT Function	Returns the number of double-byte characters in an expression.
	KINDEX Function	Searches a character expression for a string of characters.
	KINDEXC Function	Searches a character expression for specified characters.
	KLEFT Function	Left-aligns a character expression by removing unnecessary leading DBCS blanks and SO/SI.
	KLENGTH Function	Returns the length of an argument.
	KLOWCASE Function	Converts all letters in an argument to lowercase.
	KPROPCASE Function	Converts Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese (CJKT) characters.
	KPROPCHAR Function	Converts special characters to normal characters.
	KPROPDATA Function	Removes or converts unprintable characters.
	KREVERSE Function	Reverses a character expression.
	KRIGHT Function	Right-aligns a character expression by trimming trailing DBCS blanks and SO/SI.
	KSCAN Function	Selects a specified word from a character expression.
	KSTRCAT Function	Concatenates two or more character expressions.
	KSUBSTR Function	Extracts a substring from an argument.
	KSUBSTRB Function	Extracts a substring from an argument according to the byte position of the substring in the argument.
	KTRANSLATE Function	Replaces specific characters in a character expression.
	KTRIM Function	Removes trailing DBCS blanks and SO/SI from character expressions.
	KTRUNCATE Function	Truncates a numeric value to a specified length.
	KUPCASE Function	Converts all letters in an argument to uppercase.
	KUPDATE Function	Inserts, deletes, and replaces character value contents.
	KUPDATEB Function	Inserts, deletes, and replaces the contents of the character value according to the byte position of the character value in the argument.
	KVERIFY Function	Returns the position of the first character that is unique to an expression.
Date and Time	NLDATE Function	Converts the SAS date value to the date value of the specified locale by using the date format descriptors.
	NLDATM Function	Converts the SAS datetime value to the time value of the specified locale by using the datetime- format descriptors.
	NLTIME Function	Converts the SAS time or the datetime value to the time value of the specified locale by using the NLTIME descriptors.
Locale	GETLOCENV Function	Returns the current locale/language environment.
	GETPXLANGUAGE Function	Returns the current two-letter language code.
	GETPXLOCALE Function	Returns the POSIX locale value for a SAS locale.
	GETPXREGION Function	Returns the current two-letter region code.
	SORTKEY Function	creates a linguistic sort key.
Variable Information	VARTRANSCODE Function	Returns the transcode attribute of a SAS data set variable.
	VTRANSCODE Function	Returns a value that indicates whether transcoding is enabled for the specified character variable.
	VTRANSCODEX Function	Returns a value that indicates whether transcoding is enabled for the specified argument.

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