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| $CBw. |
| Category: | Column Binary |
| Syntax | |
| Syntax Description | |
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| Examples | |
| See Also |
Syntax |
| $CBw. |
| Default: | none |
| Range: | 1-32767 |
| Details |
The $CBw. informat reads standard character data from column-binary files, with each card column represented in 2 bytes, and it translates the data into standard character codes. If the combinations are invalid punch codes, SAS returns blanks and sets the automatic variable _ERROR_ to 1.
| Examples |
input @1 name $cb2.;
| Data Lines* | Results | |
|---|---|---|
----+----1 |
EBCDIC | ASCII |
200A |
+ |
N |
| *The data line is a hexadecimal representation of the column binary. The punch card column for the example data has row 12, row 6, and row 8 punched. The binary representation is 0010 0000 0000 1010. | ||
| See Also |
| Informats:
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| See the discussion on reading column-binary data in SAS Language Reference: Concepts. |
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