CBw.d

CBw.d

Reads standard numeric values from column-binary files

Category: Column Binary

Syntax
Syntax Description
Details
Examples
See Also

Syntax

CBw.d

Syntax Description

w

specifies the width of the input field.

Range:

1-32

d

optionally specifies the power of 10 by which to divide the value. SAS uses the d value even if the data contain decimal points.

Details

The CBw.d informat reads standard numeric values from column-binary files and translates the data into standard binary format.

SAS first stores each column of column-binary data you read with CBw.d in two bytes and ignores the two high-order bits of each byte. If the punch codes are valid, SAS stores the equivalent numeric value into the variable that you specify. If the combinations are not valid, SAS assigns the variable a missing value and sets the automatic variable _ERROR_ to 1.

Examples

input @1 x cb8.;

Data Lines* Results

----+----1

0009

9

*The data line is a hexadecimal representation of the column binary. The punch card column for the example data has row 9 punched. The binary representation is 0000 0000 0000 1001.

See Also

Data Lines*	Results
----+----1
0009	9
*The data line is a hexadecimal representation of the column binary. The punch card column for the example data has row 9 punched. The binary representation is 0000 0000 0000 1001.

Informats:

$CBw.

PUNCH.d

ROWw.d

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