$UCS4BEw. Format

Processes a character string that is in big-endian, 32-bit, UCS4, Unicode encoding, and then writes the character string in the encoding of the current SAS session.
Category: Character
Alignment: left

Syntax

$UCS4BEw.

Syntax Description

w
specifies the width of the output field. Specify enough width to accommodate the 32-bit size of the Unicode characters.
Default:8
Range:1–32000

Details

The $UCS4BEw. format writes a character string in the encoding of the current SAS session. It processes character strings that are in big-endian, 32-bit, UCS4 (universal character set code in four octets), Unicode encoding.

Comparisons

The $UCS4BEw. format performs processing that is the opposite of the $UCS4Bw. format.

Example

This example uses the Japanese Shift_JIS encoding, which is supported under the UNIX operating environment.
Statements
Result
----+----1
x ='000059270000004100000042'x;
put x $ucs4be.;
xxxAB

See Also

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