RE: More Stream File and DBCS issues...

Hi Brad,

Roll your own by only scanning non-DBCS, ie count shiftout and shiftin bytes
and only attempt to replace when not in DBCS. Can you tell I've been nearby
when this has been necessary?

There may be an API that will do it for you as well. qlg* I think.   

Regards,

Kevin W. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Stone [mailto:brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, 3 November 2006 3:47 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: More Stream File and DBCS issues...


On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 08:11:01 +1100 
 Kevin Wright <Kevin.Wright@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Also could the DBCS in question contain the apostrophe
character in one of
its bytes? 

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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