Re: More Stream File and DBCS issues...

On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 23:46:30 -0500
 "Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think I just answered my own question.  It appears in
mixed strings of SBCS and DBCS the shift in and out DBCS
delimiters X'0E' and X'0F'

Not sure why I didn't see them before.

Well, that makes my replace procedure much more fun.  :)  I
assume I just have to first find these two delimiters
anywhere in the string, and when scanning for replacement
characters ignore anything in between these two values
anywhere in the string...

Ding ding ding!  Bingo.  We have a winner!

I am doing a replace of characters in the string before
writing it.  I am doing (, ) and \ since these have to be
translated to \(, \) and \\ respectivley.

One of the DBCS characters' bytes is x'4D' which is the
same as the hex for the ( character.

Now comes the fun question that I hope there is an easy
answer to.

When scanning a string for a character, is there a way to
know if it has DBCS data in it?  And if not, how would
this
problem be prevented?  I guess I had assumed (wrongly)
that
DBCS data couldn't possibly be comprised of the same hex
values as another SBCS characters...
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