Converts hexadecimal positive binary values to either fixed-point
or floating-point binary values.
Category: |
Numeric
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Width range: |
1 to 16
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Default width: |
8
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UNIX specifics: |
floating-point representation
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See: |
HEXw. informat in
SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
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The HEXw. informat converts the
hexadecimal representation of positive binary numbers to real floating-point
binary values. The width value of the HEXw. informat
determines whether the input represents an integer (fixed-point) or real (floating-point)
binary number. When you specify a width of 1 through 15, the informat interprets
the input hexadecimal as an integer binary number. When your specify 16 for
the width value, the informat interprets the input hexadecimal as a floating-point
value.
For more information, see Reading and Writing Binary Data in UNIX Environments.
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