$ASCIIw. Informat

Converts ASCII character data to native format.

Category:

Character

Syntax

$ASCIIw.

w: specifies the width of the input field.

Default:1 if the length of the variable is undefined. Otherwise, the default is the length of the variable.

Range:1–32767

If ASCII is the native format, no conversion occurs.

On an IBM mainframe system, $ASCIIw. converts ASCII data to EBCDIC.
On all other systems, $ASCIIw. behaves like the $CHARw. informat except that the default length is different.

input @1 name $ascii3.;

Data Line	Result 1
----+----1	EBCDIC	ASCII
abc	818283	616263
ABC	C1C2C3	414243
();	4D5D5E	28293B
1The results are hexadecimal representations of codes for characters. Each two hexadecimal characters correspond to one byte of binary data, and each byte corresponds to one character value.