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zossysprog
Calcite | Level 5

I'm fairly new to SAS but not z/OS and other languages on that platform.

 

I'm reading a dataset that has data stored in as a hex value.  In my example, the value stored in one byte is x'76'.  I need to convert this to the decimal equivalent of 118 and then add 1900 (it's a year).  I've searched many samples and found PUT or INPUT statements that seem like they should work but none have so far.  If someone can provide a sample statement to do this, I'd greatly appreciate it. 

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Tom
Super User Tom
Super User

Since you are use mainframe I will assume that by "dataset" you actually mean that you have a raw file that you want to read into a SAS dataset.  To read binary data use the PIB informat.

Let's make a sample file.

filename test temp;
data _null_;
  file test recfm=f lrecl=10;
  put 'ABCDEFGHI' '76'x ;
run;

And then read it.

data want ;
  infile test recfm=f lrecl=10;
  input name $9. yr pib1.;
  list;
  yr=yr + 1900;
  put name= yr= ;
run;
46    data want ;
47      infile test recfm=f lrecl=10;
48      input name $9. yr pib1.;
49      list;
50      yr=yr + 1900;
51      put name= yr= ;
52    run;

NOTE: The infile TEST is:

      Filename=...
      RECFM=F,LRECL=10,File Size (bytes)=10,
      Last Modified=31Aug2018:11:37:12,
      Create Time=31Aug2018:11:37:12

name=ABCDEFGHI yr=2018
RULE:     ----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8----+----9----+--
1         ABCDEFGHIv
NOTE: 1 record was read from the infile TEST.
NOTE: The data set WORK.WANT has 1 observations and 2 variables.

 

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Tom
Super User Tom
Super User

Since you are use mainframe I will assume that by "dataset" you actually mean that you have a raw file that you want to read into a SAS dataset.  To read binary data use the PIB informat.

Let's make a sample file.

filename test temp;
data _null_;
  file test recfm=f lrecl=10;
  put 'ABCDEFGHI' '76'x ;
run;

And then read it.

data want ;
  infile test recfm=f lrecl=10;
  input name $9. yr pib1.;
  list;
  yr=yr + 1900;
  put name= yr= ;
run;
46    data want ;
47      infile test recfm=f lrecl=10;
48      input name $9. yr pib1.;
49      list;
50      yr=yr + 1900;
51      put name= yr= ;
52    run;

NOTE: The infile TEST is:

      Filename=...
      RECFM=F,LRECL=10,File Size (bytes)=10,
      Last Modified=31Aug2018:11:37:12,
      Create Time=31Aug2018:11:37:12

name=ABCDEFGHI yr=2018
RULE:     ----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8----+----9----+--
1         ABCDEFGHIv
NOTE: 1 record was read from the infile TEST.
NOTE: The data set WORK.WANT has 1 observations and 2 variables.

 

zossysprog
Calcite | Level 5

Thank you.  This is exactly what I needed. 

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