SAS Formats under Windows

PIBw.d Format: Windows

Writes values in positive integer-binary (fixed-point) format.

Category	numeric
Width range:	1-8
Default width:	1
Decimal range:	0-10
Alignment:	left
Windows specifics:	native byte-swapped integers
See:	PIBw.d in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary

Syntax
Details
Examples
	Example 1: Processing a Number That Is Too Large To Format
See Also

Syntax

PIBw.d

w: specifies the width of the output field in bytes (not digits).
d: specifies a scaling factor. When you specify a d value, the PIBw.d format multiplies the number by 10^d, and then applies the positive integer binary format to that value.

Details

The PIBw.d format converts a fixed-point value to an integer binary value. If the fixed-point value is negative, the PIBw.d format writes the integer representation for -1.

For more information about microcomputer fixed-point values, see the Intel developer Web site.

Examples

Example 1: Processing a Number That Is Too Large To Format

When a numeric value is too large to format, the result is the largest integer value that can be stored in four bytes, which is 2,147,483,647.

In the following code

data a;
   x = 9999999999999999999;
   y = put(x, PIB8.);
   put y = hex16.;
run;

SAS returns the hexadecimal representation of 2147483647

 y=0000E8890423C78A