Re: ASCII library for ILE

[Niels Liisberg <nli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alexei you are the man !! thanx a bunch !!

On Wed, Oct 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM Alexei Baranov <alexei.baranov@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> It's called ASCII Runtime
>
> https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ascii-runtime-ibm-i
>
> Regards,
> Alexei
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject : [C400-L] ASCII library for ILE
> From    : Niels Liisberg nli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To      : "Bare Metal Programming IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)" <
> C400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Date    : Wednesday, October 1, 2025 15:07
>
> Once there was a special service program that supported ASCII in the ILE
> environment. I Simply can not remember the name of that
>
> I am in a situation where I need some of the good old sprintf, regex and
> other stdio/stdlib etc. routine. My data, however,  is in ASCII and I need
> it ILE.
>
> I cloud potentially convert data to unicode and use the _w_ functions, but
> i'll prefere it to be straight up ASCII
>
> Anyone remember that trick?
>
> Thanx in advance
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