$CHARZBw. Informat

Converts binary 0s to blanks.

Category:

Character

Syntax Description

Syntax

$CHARZBw.

Syntax Description

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

Details

The $CHARZBw. informat does not trim leading and trailing blanks in character data before it stores values.

Comparisons

The $CHARZBw. informat is identical to the $CHARw. informat except that $CHARZBw. converts any byte that contains a binary 0 to a blank character.

Example

input @1 name $charzb5.;

Data Line 1		Result 2
EBCDIC	ASCII
E7E8E90000	58595A0000	XYZ##
00E7E8E900	0058595A00	#XYZ#
00E700E8E9	005800595A	#X#YZ
1The data lines 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.
2The character # represents a blank space.

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