CMS and OS/390 hosts store character data in EBCDIC format. The following example shows SAS code that interprets the first portion of a transport file as ASCII data.

Computer systems Data representation Processors handle binary numbers while humans use denary. Binary to denary conversion aids understanding of data representation. ASCII represents text.

A file that contains data made up of ASCII characters. It is essentially raw text just like the words you are reading now. Each byte in the file contains one character that conforms to the ...