IBM integer and double formats
Mark Dickinson
dickinsm at gmail.com
Tue Nov 11 07:07:35 EST 2008
On Nov 11, 11:36 am, John Machin <sjmac... at lexicon.net> wrote:
> > wants to write the converted float out to an ASCII file, in hex.
>
> Sheesh. It's an *IBM mainframe* file. It would need to be in EBCDIC,
> not ASCII. But why guess? He said he wanted to write it out in SAS
> XPORT format.
Which is stored in ASCII, no? From the link you gave earlier, 3rd
line of the introduction:
"All character data are stored in ASCII, regardless of the
operating system."
Mark
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