$UPARENw. Informat

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

Syntax

$UPARENw.

Syntax Description

w
specifies the width of the input field.
Default:8
Range:1–32000

Details

If the SAS session encoding does not have a corresponding Unicode expression, the expression will remain in encoding of the current SAS session.

Comparisons

The $UPARENw. informat performs processing that is opposite of the $UPARENEw. informat.

Example

These examples use the Japanese Shift_JIS encoding, which is supported under the UNIX operating system.
Statements
Results
v=input('<u0061>',$uparen10.);
w=input('<u0062>',$uparen10.);
x=input('<u0063>',$uparen10.);
y=input('<u0033>',$uparen10.);
z=input('<u5927>',$uparen10.);
put v;
put w;
put x;
put y;
put z;
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Japanese