$UCS4Lw. Informat

Reads a character string that is encoded in little-endian, 32-bit, UCS4, Unicode encoding, and then converts the character string to the encoding of the current SAS session.
Category: Character

Syntax

$UCS4Lw.

Syntax Description

w
specifies the width of the input field. Specify enough width to accommodate the 32-bit size of the Unicode characters.
Default:4
Range:4–32000

Comparisons

If you are processing data within the same operating environment, then use the $UCS4Xw. informat. If you are processing data from different operating environments, then use the $UCS4Bw. and $UCS4Lw. informats.

Example

These examples use the Japanese Shift_JIS encoding, which is supported under the UNIX operating environment.
Statements
Result
----+----1----+----2----+----3----+
z=put('.com',$UCS4L16.);
put z $hex32.;
2E000000630000006F0000006D000000