$A2E

Translate ASCII to EBCDIC

Note: Most Sirius $functions have been deprecated in favor of Object Oriented methods. The OO equivalent for the $A2E function is the AsciiToEbcdic (String function).

The $A2E function returns a string which is the EBCDIC equivalent of the (presumed) ASCII input string. $A2E is longstring capable, that is, it can receive an input longstring and will produce an output longstring.

$A2E accepts one required argument and returns a string value.

The first argument is the string to be translated from ASCII to EBCDIC.

The returned result is a string which is the EBCDIC equivalent of the (presumed) ASCII input string.

The $EBCDIC function provides the same translation as $A2E, but is only available if the FUNU module is linked in, and is also not longstring capable.

Syntax

%ebcdic = $A2E(ascii_val)

%ebcdic is set to the ASCII-to-EBCDIC translation of ascii_val.

Usage notes

The inverse of $A2E is $E2A.

$A2E uses the "standard" ASCII-to-EBCDIC translation tables provided by Sirius, and it provides no mechanism for overriding these tables.

Products authorizing $A2E

• Sirius functions
• Fast/Unload User Language Interface
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• Janus Open Server
• Janus Sockets
• Janus Web Server
• Japanese functions
• Sir2000 Field Migration Facility

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