RE: How to recognize "foreign" characters -- MIDRANGE-L

Thanks Coy
I am playing around with the query you sent me - so far - no luck - but its still early

Alan Shore
E-mail : ASHORE@xxxxxxxx
Phone [O] : (631) 200-5019
Phone [C] : (631) 880-8640
'If you're going through hell, keep going.'
Winston Churchill

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Krill, Coy
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 4:54 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: How to recognize "foreign" characters

That's an EBCDIC DEL character not ASCII where it's a BEL, I was misremembering which was which. We had problems with 07 bell and 08 backspace. They didn't convert correctly to EBCDIC, I don't remember what we had doing the conversion but it ignored control characters and left them as is, so we had RPG III code that removed both of those characters. They were warranty registration cards from a service bureau that did the data entry so I never knew why those would be embedded. Now that I think about it, I think those came on 8" floppies too <shiver>.

Coy Krill
Core Processing Administrator/Analyst
Washington Trust Bank

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Krill, Coy
Sent: 2018 February 14 13:37
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: How to recognize "foreign" characters
Importance: Low

I don't know about finding foreign charactes, but you can look for hex strings using position:

select *
from file
where position(x'070707', field) != 0

It might also be interesting to note that x07 is the delete character and way back in the day (late '80s) I remember seeing lots of those being stored in text strings especially when we were getting ASCII date from some service bureau.

Coy Krill
Core Processing Administrator/Analyst
Washington Trust Bank

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alan Shore
Sent: 2018 February 14 08:03
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: How to recognize "foreign" characters
Importance: Low

Hi everyone
Before I forget - we are on V7r1

Our system receives orders that sometimes contains "foreign" characters - chines etc., Arabic Looking at the data in hexadecimal, it seems to be consistently 070707, but never in the same place or length Is there any way (via SQL) to look for these characters within the string?

Alan Shore
E-mail : ASHORE@xxxxxxxx
Phone [O] : (631) 200-5019
Phone [C] : (631) 880-8640
'If you're going through hell, keep going.'
Winston Churchill

--
This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
visit: https://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l
or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at https://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.

Please contact support@xxxxxxxxxxxx for any subscription related questions.

Help support midrange.com by shopping at amazon.com with our affiliate link: http://amzn.to/2dEadiD

---------------------------------------------------------------------
This electronic mail message and any attachments may contain confidential or privileged information and is intended for use solely by the above-referenced recipient. Any review, copying, printing, disclosure, distribution, or other use by any other person or entity is strictly prohibited under applicable law. If you are not the named recipient, or believe you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to this message and delete the copy you received

---------------------------------------------------------------------

--
This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
visit: https://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l
or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at https://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.

Please contact support@xxxxxxxxxxxx for any subscription related questions.

Help support midrange.com by shopping at amazon.com with our affiliate link: http://amzn.to/2dEadiD

---------------------------------------------------------------------
This electronic mail message and any attachments may contain confidential or privileged information and is intended for use solely by the above-referenced recipient. Any review, copying, printing, disclosure, distribution, or other use by any other person or entity is strictly prohibited under applicable law. If you are not the named recipient, or believe you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to this message and delete the copy you received

---------------------------------------------------------------------

--
This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
visit: https://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l
or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at https://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.

Please contact support@xxxxxxxxxxxx for any subscription related questions.

Help support midrange.com by shopping at amazon.com with our affiliate link: http://amzn.to/2dEadiD