Re: Converting an into to hex to char

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I too find them confusing - the H member for cvtch has this declaration -

void cvtch ( _SPCPTR,               /* Receiver 4-bit hex        */
             _SPCPTRCN,             /* Source 8-bit character@A0C*/
             int );                 /* Length in bytes of source */

Ah, OK - the thing I sent Gary was to make an 8-byte value out of 
16-character hex representation - Oy OY Oy!

Sorry, Gary, to add to the confusion!

Vern

On 9/21/2012 4:09 PM, Barbara Morris wrote:
> About cvthc() and cvtch(), the length parameters for both functions
> represent the length of the longer "character" value.
>
> So for converting from x'1234' to '1234', you would pass 4 as the length
> value to cvthc.
>
> And for converting from '1234' to x'1234', you would pass 4 as the
> length value to cvtch.
>
> (I find these two functions to be monumentally confusing.)