$UPARENw. Format

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

Syntax

$UPARENw.

Syntax Description

w
specifies the width of the output field.
Default:8
Range:27–32000

Details

The character string is encoded with parentheses and Unicode hexadecimal representation.

Comparisons

The $UPARENw. format performs processing that is the opposite of the $UPARENEw. format.

Example

This example uses the Japanese Shift_JIS session encoding, which is supported under the UNIX operating system.
Statements
Results
----+----1----+----2----+----3----+
x='Japanese';
y='abc3';
put x $uparen7.;
put y $uparen28.;
<u5927>
<u0061> <u0062> <u0063> <u0033>