Reads packed decimal values.
| Category: |
numeric
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| Width range: |
1 to 16
|
| Default width: |
1
|
| Decimal range: |
0 to 10
|
| OpenVMS specifics: |
How values are interpreted as negative
or positive
|
| See: |
PDw.d Informat in
SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
|
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w
-
specifies the width of the input field.
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d
-
specifies the power of 10 by which to divide
the input value. This argument is optional. If you specify d, the PDw.d
informat divides the input value by the 10d
value. If the data contains decimal points, then SAS ignores the d value.
Under OpenVMS, the least significant 4
bits of the least significant byte in the PD value are interpreted as follows:
-
If the hexadecimal number in the 4 bits is D or
F, then the value is interpreted as negative.
-
If the hexadecimal number in the 4 bits is C,
then the value is interpreted as positive.
The
PDw.d format writes missing numerical
data as -0. When the PDw.d informat reads -0,
it stores it as
0.
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