Reading in Hex data

I have never had the need fro reading hex data, but here is what sas says:

$HEXw.


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Converts hexadecimal data to character data
Category: Character



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Syntax
Syntax Description
Details
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Syntax
$HEXw.


Syntax Description

w
specifies the number of digits of hexadecimal data.
If w=1, $HEXw. pads a trailing hexadecimal 0. If w is an odd number that is greater than 1, then $HEXw. reads w-1 hexadecimal characters. Default: 2
Range: 1-32767




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Details


The $HEXw. informat converts every two digits of hexadecimal data into one byte of character data. Use $HEXw. to encode hexadecimal values into a character variable when your input method is limited to printable characters.


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Comparisons


The HEXw. informat reads two digits of hexadecimal data at a time and converts them into one byte of numeric data.


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Examples



input @1 name $hex4.;

Data Lines Results
----+----1
Hex ASCII EBCDIC
6C6C 11 %%

Thanks, but I can't get it to work. My output keeps coming out in hex no matter what I do.

Can you provide a few lines of data and the data lay out?

It hard to tell without knowing what you have.

thanks, but my assignment has changed. I no longer need to do this. I appreciate the help though.

fyi cojiro - you were close

ZD is 'Zoned Decimal' --- it is actually a character number (so if you browse the file you would actually see 1234.56)

PD is 'Packed decimal' --- the first number is the number of CHARS that is the length (so pd7.2 would be hex '00000000000000c' - or the equivilent of a fixed dec 13.2)

if it were a binary number you would use IB2.0

Like teralearner, I have never had to use HEX... but I think this is really what you were trying to do.

So I am betting that your ZDs should just have been PD - good luck when this project comes back to you again.

Thanks, even though I'm not doing this anymore, its good to know what I'm trying to code actually means.