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$HEXw.

Category	character
Width range:	1-32767
Default width:	2
Alignment:	left
OS/2 specifics:	ASCII character-encoding system

w

specifies width of the input value.

Details

The $HEXw. informat is like the HEXw. informat in that it reads values in which each hexadecimal digit occupies 1 byte. Use the $HEXw. informat to encode hexadecimal information into a character variable when your input data are limited to printable characters. The conversion is based on the ASCII character set.

See Also

• Informats: $HEXw. in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary and HEXw.

• Format: $HEXw.

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