$HexA

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<section begin="desc" />Convert hexadecimal string to EBCDIC equivalent<section end="desc" />

Most Sirius $functions have been deprecated in favor of Object Oriented methods. The OO equivalent for the $HexA function is to be entered.

This function converts a hexadecimal string to its EBCDIC equivalent.

The $HexA function accepts one argument and returns a string result.

The first argument is a string containing the characters

  • .0 - 9 and A - F. All other characters are treated as 0. If the number of characters in the first argument is odd, the first argument is considered to begin with an extra 0 character.

    Syntax

    <section begin="syntax" /> %EBCDIC = $HexA(hex_string) <section end="syntax" />

    $HexA Function

    %EBCDIC is set to the EBCDIC equivalent of hex_string.

    For example, in

    %JUNK = $HexA('F1F2F3')

    %JUNK would be set to the string '123' (EBCDIC X'F1F2F3'), and in

    %JUNK = $HexA('102')

    %JUNK would be set to EBCDIC X'0102' which is a non-displayable string.

    Products authorizing $HexA