$UCS2Xw. Informat
Reads a character string that is encoded in 16-bit, UCS2, Unicode encoding, and then converts the character string to the encoding of the current SAS session.
| Category: | Character |
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| Restriction: | This informat is not supported in a DATA step that runs in CAS. |
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Syntax
Syntax Description
w
specifies the width of the output field. Specify enough width to accommodate the 16-bit size of the Unicode characters.
| Default | 8 |
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| Range | 2–32767 |
Comparisons
The $UCS2Xw. informat performs processing that is the opposite of the $UCS2XEw. informat. If you are processing data within the same operating environment, then use the $UCS2Xw. informat. If you are processing data from different operating environments, then use the $UCS2Bw. and $UCS2Lw. informats.
Example
This example uses the Japanese Shift_JIS encoding, which is supported under the LINUX operating environment. This example uses little-endian formatting.
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