$ASCIIw.

$ASCIIw.

Converts native format character data to ASCII representation

Category: Character

Alignment: left

Syntax
Syntax Description
Details
Comparisons
Examples

Syntax

$ASCIIw.

Syntax Description

w

specifies the width of the output field.

Default:	1
Range:	1-32767

Details

If ASCII is the native format, no conversion occurs.

Comparisons

On EBCDIC systems, $ASCIIw. converts EBCDIC character data to ASCIIw.
On all other systems, $ASCIIw. behaves like the $CHARw. format.

Examples

put x $ascii3.;

Values Results*

abc

616263

ABC

414243

();

28293B

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

Values	Results*
abc	616263
ABC	414243
();	28293B
*The results are hexadecimal representations of ASCII codes for characters. Each two hexadecimal digits correspond to one byte of binary data, and each byte corresponds to one character.

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