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Re: Beginner question re: CPYBTL

From: Tom Daly <tdaly_2002@yahoo.com>
> I need to expand a 3 character string to 4 characters
> a-la base64 encoding>
> Expected results:
> 24 22  9 35
> Actual results (repeatedly no matter what gyrations I try):
> 00 22 00 00
>
> DCL   DD    SOURCE     CHAR(4)
> INIT(X'01100001011000100110001100000000');
>                                     /*       97
> 98      99       0 */

INIT(X'61626300')

you were thinking binary and thought:
INIT(B'01100001011000100110001100000000');

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