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$OCTALw.

$OCTALw.


Converts character data to octal representation

Category: Character
Alignment: left

Syntax
Syntax Description
Comparisons
Examples

Syntax

$OCTALw.

Syntax Description

w
specifies the width of the output field.
Default: The default width is calculated based on the length of the variable to be printed.
Range: 1-32767
Tip: Because each character value generates three octal characters, increase the value of w three times the length of the character value.

Comparisons

The $OCTALw. format converts character values to the octal representation of their character codes. The OCTALw. format converts numeric values to octal representation.

Examples

put @2 name $octal9.;
The character # represents a blank space.

Values Results

EBCDIC ASCII 

----+----1
 
----+----1
 
A##
 
 301100100
 
 101040040
 
B##
 
 302100100
 
 102040040


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