$ASCIIw.

$ASCIIw.

Converts ASCII character data to native format

Category: Character

Syntax
Syntax Description
Details
Comparisons
Examples

Syntax

$ASCIIw.

Syntax Description

w

specifies the width of the input field.

Default:	1 if the length of the variable is undefined; otherwise, the length of the variable
Range:	1-32767

Details

If ASCII is the native format, no conversion occurs.

Comparisons

On an IBM mainframe system, $ASCIIw. converts ASCII data to EBCDIC.
On all other systems, $ASCIIw. behaves like the $CHARw. informat except that the default length is different.

Examples

input @1 name $ascii3.;

Data Lines Results*

----+----1
EBCDIC ASCII

abc

818283

616263

ABC

C1C2C3

414243

();

4D5D5E

28293B

*The results are hexadecimal representations of codes for characters. Each two hexadecimal digits correspond to one byte of binary data, and each byte corresponds to one character value.

Data Lines	Results*
----+----1	EBCDIC	ASCII
abc	818283	616263
ABC	C1C2C3	414243
();	4D5D5E	28293B
*The results are hexadecimal representations of codes for characters. Each two hexadecimal digits correspond to one byte of binary data, and each byte corresponds to one character value.

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