CTRANSLATE

NM and CM callable.

Converts a string of characters between EBCDIC and ASCII, or between EBCDIK (HP-specific version of EBCDIC) and KANA8 (8-bit, Japanese International Standard (JIS) version of USASCII code).

Syntax

             I16V      CA      CA
   CTRANSLATE(transcode,inbuffer,outbuffer,
               I16V       CA
             bufferlength,transtable);

Parameters

transcode

16-bit signed integer by value (required)

Passes one of the following translation identifiers:

VaIue

Meaning

0

User-supplied table specified in the transtable parameter

1

Convert EBCDIC to ASCII

2

Convert ASCII to EBCDIC

3

Reserved for operating system

4

Reserved for operating system

5

Convert EBCDIK to KANA8 (JIS)

6

Convert KANA8 (JIS) to EBCDIK

inbuffer

character array (required)

Passes the string of characters to be translated.

outbuffer

character array (optional)

Passes the translated character string. If an outbuffer parameter is not specified, all translation occurs within inbuffer. The inbuffer and outbuffer parameters can specify the same array.

bufferlength

16-bit signed integer by value (required)

Passes the number of characters to be converted.

transtable

character array (required when transcode=0, otherwise optional)

Passes the user-defined translation table. The contents and order of transtable define the translation process. Transtable must be <= 256 bytes. Transtable is constructed so that each byte corresponds to a byte value in the source string to be translated. For example, the first byte in transtable gives the code to be substituted for source bytes whose value is 0.

Condition Codes

CCE (2): Request granted. Translation performed successfully.
CCG (0): Not returned.
CCL (1): Request denied. An error occurred.

Related Information

Manual: Data Types Conversion Programmer's Guide

CTRANSLATE

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Syntax

Parameters

Condition Codes

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