Processes a character string that is in the encoding
of the current SAS session, and then writes the character string in
native-endian, 32-bit, UCS4, Unicode encoding.
specifies the width
of the output field. Specify enough width to accommodate the 32-bit
size of the Unicode characters.
Default: 4
Range: 4–32767
Details
The $UCS4Xw. format writes a character string in 32-bit,
UCS4 (universal character set code in two octets), Unicode encoding,
by using byte order that is native to the operating environment.
Comparisons
The $UCS4Xw. format performs processing that is the opposite
of the $UCS4XEw. format. If
you are exchanging data within the same operating environment, use
the $UCS4Xw. format. If you
are exchanging data with a different operating environment, use the
$UCS4Bw. format or $UCS4Lw. format.
Example
This example uses the
Japanese Shift_JIS session encoding, which is supported under the
UNIX operating environment.
Statements
Results
----+----1
x = '';
put x $ucs4x4.;
'00005927'x (binary) or '27590000'x (little endian)
