$UNCREw. Informat

Reads a character string in the encoding of the current SAS session, and then converts the character string to NCR.
Category: Character

Syntax

$UNCREw.

Syntax Description

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

Details

The output string will be converted to plain characters and NCR. Any national characters will be converted to NCR.

Comparisons

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

Example

These examples use the Japanese Shift_JIS encoding, which is supported under the UNIX operating system.
Statements
Result
----+----1----+
x=input ('Japaneseabc', $uncre12.);
put x;
大abc

See Also

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