Re: HTML Encoding in RPGLE

[Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes?  So why not write the same thing in RPG?  Granted, you'll have to 
deal with EBCDIC rather than Unicode, but that doesn't seem too difficult.

Where are you stuck?

On 2/25/2013 9:28 AM, Michael Naughton wrote:
> I have an RPGLE program that constructs an HTML string and sends it (through a Windows-based web server) to the browser. Is there a way to HTML encode parts of the HTML in the RPG program? For example, if I have a string like "15°", is there a way to
> translate it to "15°"?
>
> An alternative is to somehow do this on the web server on the way to the browser, but obviously I _don't_ want to translate all the actual HTML tags, so it might get a little ugly. Doing it in the RPG program (if possible) seems like the best way to go,
> since the program can know exactly which parts need to be encoded and which ones don't.
>
> I know I could write a function that's one long Select statement, but I'm wondering if there's an easier (more elegant) way -- something along the lines of:
>
> 	Dim ch As String
> 	phrase$=""
> 	 For a=1 To Len(oldphrase)
> 	  ch=Mid$(oldphrase,a,1)
> 	  If Uni(ch)=32 Or Uni(ch)>47 And Uni(ch)<58  Or _ '0-9
> 	  Uni(ch)>64 And Uni(ch)<91  Or _  'A-Z
> 	  Uni(ch)>96 And Uni(ch)<123 Then  'a-z
> 	   phrase$=phrase$ & ch
> 	  Else
> 	   phrase$=phrase$ & "&#" & Uni(ch) & ";"
> 	  End If
> 	 Next
>
> Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated! Thank you,
>
> Mike Naughton
> Senior Programmer/Analyst
> Judd Wire, Inc.
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> Turners Falls, MA  01376
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