RE: Case conversion (was Re: Large Return values) -- RPG400-L

This is where ILE is bitter sweet.  We can use a ton of different C API's,
but they aren't always apparent.  I would have never guessed that iconv()
converted a string to upper case (which is what I was about to write).

Take a look at what PHP has for a rich "BIF" feature set.  They have more
string functions than RPG has in its entire BIF collection!!  I would love
it if RPG could make it this far, and have a website similar to www.php.net
with the ability to make comments on bifs or whatever.  Of course there is
nothing stopping somebody on this list doing something like that I guess :-)

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.strtoupper.php




-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Bob Cozzi
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 8:52 AM
To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RE: Case conversion (was Re: Large Return values)

Hans,
Absolutely, that's why I suggested %toupper() it is something everybody
needs, deals with the long return values and also has performance
implications. 
So the first question is why would you use iconv() instead of
QlgConvertCase?
-Bob


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Hans Boldt
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 8:39 AM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Case conversion (was Re: Large Return values)

Bob Cozzi wrote:
> Hans,
> Would you mind explaining what advantage an IBM-implementation of say...
> "%toupper()" built-in function would provide over a programmer-written 
> "toupper()" procedure?
> For example, would a long returned value be an issue, would it be 
> language independent, would it have any performance implications?
> 

Just to make clear from the start, this is strictly a theoretical question
since a %TOUPPER() built-in is not a future objective for us.

I'm not sure I see any advantages of a %TOUPPER() built-in since it would be
nothing more than a wrapper for the function iconv().

Cheers! Hans

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