Assigning a variable a hexadecimal value like 01x in PROC FCMP when creating a function or subroutine results in an ERROR when the function or subroutine is called in the DATA step. An assignment of a hexadecimal value in PROC FCMP would be the following:

   Proc FCMP outlib=work.funcs.temp;
     Function testit();
       varx=01x;
     Return(varx);
   Endsub;

The workaround in SAS 9.2 is to use the INPUT function with the HEXw. informat to create the hexadecimal variable. Here is the above code modified using the INPUT function:

   Proc FCMP outlib=work.funcs.temp;
     Function testit();
       varx=input('01',hex.);
     Return(varx);
   Endsub;

This problem has been addressed in SAS 9.3 TS1M0.

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