$UESCw. Informat

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

Syntax

$UESCw.

Syntax Description

w
specifies the width of the output 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 representation. The $UESCw. informat can be nested.

Comparisons

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

Example

These examples use the Japanese Shift_JIS encoding, which is supported under the UNIX operating system.
Statements
Results
----+----1----+
x=input('¥u5927', $uesc10.);
y=input('¥uu5927', $uesc10.);
z=input('¥uuu5927', $uesc10.);
put x;
put y;
put z;
Japanese
¥u5927
¥uu5927

See Also

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