$E2A
<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 to be entered.
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 $E2A $E2A.
$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.