BYTE Function

Returns one character in the ASCII or the EBCDIC collating sequence

Category: Character

See: BYTE Function in the documentation for your operating environment.

Syntax

BYTE ( n )

Arguments

n

• specifies an integer that represents a specific ASCII or EBCDIC character.

• Range: 0-255

Details

If the BYTE function returns a value to a variable that has not yet been assigned a length, by default the variable is assigned a length of 1.

For EBCDIC collating sequences, n is between 0 and 255. For ASCII collating sequences, the characters that correspond to values between 0 and 127 represent the standard character set. Other ASCII characters that correspond to values between 128 and 255 are available on certain ASCII operating environments, but the information those characters represent varies with the operating environment.

Examples

SAS Statements	Results
	ASCII	EBCDIC
	----+----1----+----2	----+----1----+----2
x=byte(80);
put x;	P	&

See Also

Functions:

• 'COLLATE Function' on page 443

• 'RANK Function' on page 779