Re: More info on [ to ^...

["Phil Hall" <hallp@xxxxxxxx>]

> It's an RPG program, it writes out to a file:
>
> blahblah [ 0 0 0 ]
>
> Now, on this machine it writes out:
>
> blahblah ^ 0 0 0 ]
>
> The Hex code of ^ is x'BA', which is correct, but it's the wrong
character.

Nope, it's the correct character for that particular codepage !

If you're just reading this file in/out in code, and parsing for the [,
change you code to parse for the hex value instead, this means that you'll
parse it correctly, no matter what the character looks like on the screen.

If however you wish for the [ to be displayed on the screen no matter what
for users to see and edit, then you're in for a bigger job... the [ is a
variant character - meaning that it jumps from hex value to hex value
depending upon the active codepage. In this case you'll need to know more
about NLS, and again I suggest RTM for NLS support on the AS/400

Or choose one of the invariant characters for delimiters...

--phil

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