Re: Character conversion

["John McKee" <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Code 128 has three variants.  Set c uses numeric only, packed two digits per byte.  Set B uses one character per byte.

Given a seven digit account number, such as 5678901, the output needs to be - decimal values here:

105, 56, 78, 90, 104, 31, xx

I can't recall the specific value for 31, or the check character for xx.  

Only constants are 105 and 104.  All values are one comma separated number (decimal above) per byte.

I thought this would be easier.  I went from a bar code with an incorrect value to no bar code at all.

I need to think about this more.  I would have responded earlier, except TWICE, my composed response got trashed, TWICE, by a timed out connection and a mysteriously down (multiple times) webmail server.

Sorry to take up time with this stupid issue.

John McKee
-----Original message-----
From: Scott Klement midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:03:25 -0500
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Character conversion

> Sorry, I don't follow you.  What do you mean by "get 105 in a single 
> character"?   (Unless you mean exactly what I said already, that you 
> want to set the value of a byte to x'69', which is the same as decimal 105?)
>
> Likewise, when you say F1F2 compressed into 12, that's what I already 
> said...   instead of charvar = '12' you'd do charvar = x'12'.
>
> Isn't that what I said?  What am I missing?
>
>
> On 8/3/2011 3:52 PM, John McKee wrote:
> > Scott,
> >
> > That was example data only.  Not good, either, unfortunately.  I need
> > to get 105 in a single character.  Then, pairs of digits - such as 1
> > and 2 - which would be in a character string as F1F2 (two characters)
> > compressed into one character (12).  Different digit pairs are needed
> > (variable data).  The 105 and another value, 104, are constants used
> > to identify the change of coding within a barcode sequence.  Just
> > latched onto %char, unfortunately.
> >
> > John McKee
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