Re: EBCDIC - ASCII translation problems with the ! character

["Mike Silvers" <msilvers@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott,

Do you know the EBCDIC to ASCII table instead of QASCII?

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Klement" <klemscot@klements.com>
To: <rpg400-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: EBCDIC - ASCII translation problems with the ! character


>
> This is a feature of (or perhaps "problem with") the QEBCDIC translation
> table.
>
> Either use the iconv() API to go from codepage to codepage, or try the
> QTCPEBC table instead of QEBCDIC.   Or create your own translation
> table with the CRTTBL command...
>
> On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Mike Silvers wrote:
>
> > I am having problems in the translation of the ! character.  Here is the
> > scenario:
> >
> > I have an ASCII file on the IFS.  I read the file into an RPG variable
and
> > translate the ASCII character to EBCDIC using the following call:
> >
> >  *
> >  * Translate from ASCII to EBCDIC
> >  *
> > C                   Eval      pworkfld = %Len(%Trimr($$Html32K))
> > C                   Call      'QDCXLATE'
> > C                   Parm                    pWorkFld
> > C                   Parm                    $$Html32K
> > C                   Parm                    AtoETable
> > C                   Parm                    XLateLib
> >
> > The AtoETable is a constant with the value QEBCDIC and the XLateLib is a
> > constant with the value *LIBL.
> >
> > The variable $$Html32K then contains EBCDIC characters.  There is one
> > character at this point that was a problem.  The exclamation point (!)
was
> > translated incorrectly to a | character.  I do a an XLate to change the
|
> > character back to a !.  I then do some manipulation of the file.  After
the
> > manipulation, I convert the EBCDIC characters to ASCII characters using
the
> > following call:
> >
> >  *
> >  * Translate from EBCDIC to ASCII
> >  *
> > C                   Eval      pworkfld = %Len(%Trimr($$Html32K))
> > C                   Call      'QDCXLATE'
> > C                   Parm                    pWorkFld
> > C                   Parm                    $$Html32K
> > C                   Parm                    EtoATable
> > C                   Parm                    XLateLib
> >
> > The EtoATable is a constant with the value QASCII.
> >
> > When I look at the file using a text editor, the ! character was
converted
> > to a ] character.
> >
> > Any ideas on how to prevent the translation problem?
> >
>
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