byte function in sas studio

[superbibi]

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]

Please do not double post 🙂

What happens in your log when you run this?

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

[ballardw · Accepted solution]

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]

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.