Re: Character conversion

[Dennis <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You probably know this, but for the record: If I read the below correctly, the values 56,78,90 are probably hex values, not decimal... And the 104,...,105 bit is probably decimal.  It gets very confusing when one tries to mix bases (or character sets or languages or. ..).  Pick one (probably hex in this case, and stick with it.  You'll find yourself MUCH less confused!


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"John McKee" <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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