topic Re: byte function in sas studio in SAS Programming

byte function in sas studio

superbibi — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 17:35:53 GMT

Hi SAS users,

Can the byte function be used in sas studio?

data a ;
plusmin = byte(177);
run;

proc print data = a ;
run;

If I used the above code and can not get the plus minus sign in the dataset nor the print table.

Thank you.

PeterClemmensen — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 17:44:23 GMT

Please do not double post 🙂

What happens in your log when you run this?

data _null_;
   plusmin = byte(177);
   put plusmin;
run;

ballardw — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 18:46:27 GMT

What font are you using (active ODS Style)? The ASCII values above 127 numeric value are quite font dependent. In my set up I see a plus/minus sign.

Tom — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 18:52:45 GMT

Are you using Unicode? If so you need the two byte sequence 'C2B1'x and not just 'B1'x.

If you are not using Unicode then any code that needs more than 7 bits (greater than 127 base 10) will display differently in different fonts.