$UCS2Bw. Informat

Reads a character string that is encoded in big-endian, 16-bit, UCS2, Unicode encoding, and then converts the character string to the encoding of the current SAS session.
Category: Character

Syntax

$UCS2Bw.

Syntax Description

w
specifies the width of the input field. Specify enough width to accommodate the 16-bit size of the Unicode characters.
Default:8
Range:2–32000

Comparisons

The $UCS2Bw. informat performs processing that is opposite of the $UCS2BEw. informat. If you are processing data within the same operating environment, then use the $UCS2Xw. informat. If you are processing data from different operating environments, then use the $UCS2Bw. and $UCS2Lw. informats.

Example

This example uses the Japanese Shift_JIS encoding, which is supported under the UNIX operating environment.
Statements
Result
----+----1----+
x=input('5927'x,$ucs2b.);
put x=$hex4.;
x=91e5