Is there a SAS function that can return the UTF-16 (decimal) value of a character?

Tiaan — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 13:32:37 GMT

Hi,

I would like to analize incoming text and get their related UTF values.

For example the character 'GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA' has the following UTF values:

UTF-16 (hex) = 03b1

UTF-16 (decimal) = 945

Now I would like to get these values for every incoming character. Does SAS have something that can provide this?

Thanks!
Tiaan

Re: Is there a SAS function that can return the UTF-16 (decimal) value of a character?

Ron_MacroMaven — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 17:51:13 GMT

"Let me google that for you."

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$UCS2Lw. Format

Details

The $UCS2Lw. format writes a character string in little-endian, 16-bit, UCS2 (universal character set code in two octets), Unicode encoding. It processes character strings that are in the encoding of the current SAS session.

Comparisons

The $UCS2Lw. format performs processing that is the opposite of the $UCS2LEw. format.

Example

This example uses the Japanese Shift_JIS encoding, which is supported under the UNIX operating environment.

Statements

Result

	----+----1
data_null; `x =` ' '; y=put(x,$ucs2l2.); put y $hex.; run;	2759

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