$UNCRw. Format

Processes a character string that is encoded in the current SAS session, and then writes the character string in numeric character representation (NCR).
Category: Character
Alignment: left

Syntax

$UNCRw.

Syntax Description

w
specifies the width of the output field.
Default:8
Range:1–32000

Comparisons

The $UNCRw. format performs processing that is the opposite of the $UNCREw. format.

Example

This example uses the Japanese Shift_JIS session encoding, which is supported under the UNIX operating system.
Statements
Results
----+----1----+----2
x='91E5'x ; /* Japanese 'Japanese' in Shift-JIS */
y='abc';
put x $uncr10.;
put y $uncr10.;
&#22823
abc

See Also

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