$UCS2Bw. Format

Processes a character string that is in the encoding of the current SAS session, and then writes the character string in big-endian, 16-bit, UCS2, Unicode encoding.
Category: Character
Alignment: left

Syntax

$UCS2Bw.

Syntax Description

w
specifies the width of the output field. Specify enough width to accommodate the 16-bit size of the Unicode characters.
Default:8
Range:2–32767

Details

The $UCS2Bw. format writes a character string in big-endian, 16-bit, UCS2 (universal character set code in two octets), Unicode encoding. It processes character strings that are in the encoding of the current SAS session.

Comparisons

The $UCS2Bw. format performs processing that is the opposite of the $UCS2BEw. format.

Example

This example uses the Japanese Shift_JIS encoding, which is supported under the UNIX operating environment.
Statements
Results
----+----1
data_null;
x = ' xxx ';
y=put(x,$ucs2b2.);
put y $hex.;
run;
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