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<span class="pageSubtitle"><section begin="desc" />Translate EBCDIC to ASCII<section end="desc" /></span> | <span class="pageSubtitle"><section begin="desc" />Translate EBCDIC to ASCII<section end="desc" /></span> | ||
<p class="warning">Most Sirius $functions have been deprecated in favor of Object Oriented methods. The OO equivalent for the $E2A function is the [[ | <p class="warning">Most Sirius $functions have been deprecated in favor of Object Oriented methods. The OO equivalent for the $E2A function is the [[EbcdicToAscii (String function)]]. For a full list of string and numeric conversion functions see [[List of String methods]] and [[List of Float methods]].</p> | ||
The $E2A function returns a string which is the ASCII equivalent of the (presumed) EBCDIC input string. $E2A is longString capable, that is, it can receive an input longstring and will produce an output longstring. | The $E2A function returns a string which is the ASCII equivalent of the (presumed) EBCDIC input string. $E2A is longString capable, that is, it can receive an input longstring and will produce an output longstring. | ||
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The inverse of $E2A is | The inverse of $E2A is [[$A2E]]. | ||
$E2A uses the "standard" EBCDIC-to-ASCII translation tables provided by Sirius, and it provides no mechanism for overriding these tables. | $E2A uses the "standard" EBCDIC-to-ASCII translation tables provided by Sirius, and it provides no mechanism for overriding these tables. |
Revision as of 19:38, 31 January 2011
<section begin="desc" />Translate EBCDIC to ASCII<section end="desc" />
Most Sirius $functions have been deprecated in favor of Object Oriented methods. The OO equivalent for the $E2A function is the EbcdicToAscii (String function). For a full list of string and numeric conversion functions see List of String methods and List of Float methods.
The $E2A function returns a string which is the ASCII equivalent of the (presumed) EBCDIC input string. $E2A is longString capable, that is, it can receive an input longstring and will produce an output longstring.
$E2A accepts one required argument and returns a string value.
The first argument is the string to be translated from EBCDIC to ASCII.
The returned result is a string which is the ASCII equivalent of the (presumed) EBCDIC input string.
Syntax
<section begin="syntax" /> %ASCII = $E2A(ebcdic_val) <section end="syntax" />
The inverse of $E2A is $A2E.
$E2A uses the "standard" EBCDIC-to-ASCII translation tables provided by Sirius, and it provides no mechanism for overriding these tables.
$E2A is available only in Sirius Mods Version 6.8 and later.