$CBw.

$CBw.

Reads standard character data from column-binary files

Category: Column binary

Syntax
Syntax Description
Details
Examples
See Also

Syntax

$CBw.

Syntax Description

w

specifies the width of the input field.

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

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.

Informats:

CBw.d

PUNCH.d

ROWw.d

See the discussion on reading column-binary data in SAS Language Reference: Concepts.

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