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The TRANTAB Procedure |
Translation tables are operating environment-specific SAS catalog entries that are used to translate the values of one (coded) character set to another. A translation table has two halves: table one provides a translation, such as ASCII to EBCDIC; table two provides the inverse (or reverse) translation, such as EBCDIC to ASCII. Each half of a translation table is an array of 256 two-digit positions, each of which contains a one-byte unsigned number that corresponds to a coded character.
The SAS System uses translation tables for the following purposes:
PROC TRANTAB produces no output. It can display translation tables and notes in the SAS log.
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