Re: Haw to Convert ASCII CCSID 61952 to EBCDIC 037 follow up !!

On 02/04/2008, at 10:39 PM, Aschenbrenner, Poul wrote:

I have now get the string with file name created in IFS.
But the file name have some strangers hex char in the start
of varible MyFile. ??

Here is my sample exit program. What can I do to remove
the starting hex char. ex. x'0028' it look like it has
some form off lengt of the variable.
Is this normal when setting variable VARYING.

Yes, it's normal. How did you think VARYING worked? The run-time needs some way of tracking the current length of VARYING length data. It does that by having the compiler generate code to store the current length in the first 2 bytes (or optionally at VRM610 in the first 4 bytes).

I can se this in the CL program that i Call.

You have three choices:

1) Only pass VARYING parameters to a language that can handle them
2) Convert VARYING to fixed-length before passing
3) In the language that does not have native support for VARYING you must add code to handle it programmatically. Easy enough with sub- string support.

NOTE: It is generally NOT necessary to use %TRIM on VARYING fields.


Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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