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<span class="pageSubtitle">Translate ASCII to EBCDIC</span>

<p class="warn"><b>Note:</b> Many $functions have been deprecated in favor of Object Oriented methods. The OO equivalent for the <var>$A2E</var> function is the [[AsciiToEbcdic (String function)]].</p>

The <var>$A2E</var> function returns a string that is the EBCDIC equivalent of the (presumed) ASCII input string. <var>$A2E</var> is [[Longstrings|Longstring]] capable, that is, it can receive an input Longstring and will produce an output Longstring. 

==Syntax==
<p class="syntax"><span class="term">%ebcdic</span> = <span class="literal">$A2E</span>(<span class="term">ascii_val</span>) </p>

<table>
<tr><th>%ebcdic</th> 
<td>A string that is the ASCII-to-EBCDIC translation of <var class="term">ascii_val</var>. </td></tr>

<tr><th>ascii_val</th> 
<td>The string to be translated from ASCII to EBCDIC. </td></tr>
</table>

==Usage notes==
<ul>
<li>The inverse of <var>$A2E</var> is <var>[[$E2A]]</var>. </li>

<li><var>$A2E</var> uses the Janus "STANDARD" ASCII-to-EBCDIC translation tables, and it provides no mechanism for overriding these tables. However, as described in [[Translate tables|translation tables]], you are able to modify the STANDARD tables if necessary. </li>

<li>The <var>[[$Ebcdic]]</var> function provides the same type of translation as <var>$A2E</var>, but it is only available if the FUNU module is linked in, it does not use the Janus translation tables, and it is <em>not</em> Longstring capable. </li>
</ul>

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