$ASCIIw. Informat

Converts ASCII character data to native format.

Category:

Character

Syntax

$ASCIIw.

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.