HEXw. Informat

Converts hexadecimal positive binary values to either integer (fixed-point) or real (floating-point) binary values.

Category:	Numeric
See:	HEXw. Informat: UNIX in SAS Companion for UNIX Environments
	HEXw. Informat: Windows in SAS Companion for Windows
	HEXw. Informat: z/OS in SAS Companion for z/OS

Syntax

Syntax Description

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Example

Syntax

HEXw.

Syntax Description

w

specifies the field width of the input value and also specifies whether the final value is fixed-point or floating-point.

Default	8
Range	1–16
Tip	If w<16, HEXw. converts the input value to positive integer binary values, treating all input values as positive (unsigned). If w is 16, HEXw. converts the input value to real binary (floating-point) values, including negative values.

Details

Operating Environment Information: Different operating environments store floating-point values in different ways. However, HEX16. reads hexadecimal representations of floating-point values with consistent results if the values are expressed in the same way that your operating environment stores them.

The HEXw. informat ignores leading or trailing blanks.

Example

input @1 x hex3. @5 y hex16.;

Data Line 1	Result
----+----1----+----2
88F 4152000000000000	2191 5.125
1The data line shows IBM mainframe hexadecimal data.