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$CHARZBw.

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Character

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

The $CHARZBw. informat does not trim leading and trailing blanks in character data before it stores values.

Comparisons

The $CHARZBw. informat is identical to the $CHARw. informat except that $CHARZBw. converts any byte that contains a binary 0 to a blank character.

Examples

input @1 name $charzb5.;

Data Lines*		Results
EBCDIC	ASCII
E7E8E90000	58595A0000	XYZþþ
00E7E8E900	0058595A00	þXYZþ
00E700E8E9	005800595A	þXþYZ
*The data lines 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. The character þ represents a blank space.

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