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$CHARZBw. |
Category: | Character |
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Syntax |
$CHARZBw. |
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.
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Examples |
input @1 name $charzb5.;
Data Lines* | Results | |
---|---|---|
EBCDIC | ASCII | |
E7E8E90000 |
58595A0000 |
XYZ## |
00E7E8E900 |
0058595A00 |
#XYZ# |
00E700E8E9 |
005800595A |
#X#YZ |
*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 # represents a blank space. |
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