Base SAS Software: SAS Language Elements

Informats

There are four new Unicode informats:
- The $UTF8Xw. informat reads character data in 8-byte Unicode without a byte-order mark.
- The $UCS2Bw. informat reads character data in big endian 16-bit UCS2 Unicode without a byte-order mark.
- The $UCS2Lw. informat reads character data in little endian 16-bit UCS2 Unicode without a byte-order mark.
- The $UCS2Xw. informat reads character data in 16-bit UCS2 Unicode without a byte-order mark.
The following binary informat is available:
- The S370FHEXw.d informat reads real binary (floating-point) values in hexadecimal representation.
The following European currency conversion informats are available:
- The EUROw.d informat reads numeric values and removes embedded characters.
- The EUROXw.d informat reads numeric values and removes embedded characters in values where a comma is the separator between a whole number and the decimal portion.