RE: API: cwbOBJ_ReadSplF

The array is zero based so it's 0-499 with a length of 500.

What if you try this way:

//Fill w/random values
new Random().NextBytes(ebcdicBytes);

//Set some specific values...
ebcdicBytes[22] = 0; //null
ebcdicBytes[23] = 0x40; //space
ebcdicBytes[24] = 0xf1; //#1
ebcdicBytes[25] = 0xd9; //letter 'R'
ebcdicBytes[26] = 0x6f; //question mark '?'
ebcdicBytes[115] = 0; //another null
ebcdicBytes[116] = 0x97; //letter 'p'

//Convert to ascii
byte[] asciiBytes = Encoding.Convert(
Encoding.GetEncoding(37),
Encoding.ASCII,
ebcdicBytes);

Encoding source = Encoding.GetEncoding(37)'///EBCDIC encoding.
Encoding path = Encoding.ASCII
Byte[] b = ebcdicBytes
Byte[] aB = Encoding.Convert(source, path, b)

Console.WriteLine(path.GetString(aB))



-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Walden H. Leverich
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 9:19 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: API: cwbOBJ_ReadSplF

Been a (long) while since I dealt w/VB or unmanaged, but in
iSeriesDotNet.TryObjList() why do you size bbBuffer to chunkToRead-1
instead of chunkToRead? Doesn't that result in a 499 byte array? Don't
think that would cause the problem, but maybe? Are you getting back all
500 bytes in the array from the i?

As for the convert, it definitely has no problem w/nulls. Try this:

static void Main(string[] args)
{
byte[] ebcdicBytes = new byte[200];

//Fill w/random values
new Random().NextBytes(ebcdicBytes);

//Set some specific values...
ebcdicBytes[22] = 0; //null
ebcdicBytes[23] = 0x40; //space
ebcdicBytes[24] = 0xf1; //#1
ebcdicBytes[25] = 0xd9; //letter 'R'
ebcdicBytes[26] = 0x6f; //question mark '?'
ebcdicBytes[115] = 0; //another null
ebcdicBytes[116] = 0x97; //letter 'p'

//Convert to ascii
byte[] asciiBytes = Encoding.Convert(
Encoding.GetEncoding(37),
Encoding.ASCII,
ebcdicBytes);

Debug.Assert((char)asciiBytes[23] == ' ');
Debug.Assert((char)asciiBytes[24] == '1');
Debug.Assert((char)asciiBytes[25] == 'R');
Debug.Assert((char)asciiBytes[26] == '?');
Debug.Assert((char)asciiBytes[116] == 'p');

}