Re: Non displayable characters in a PF

["Crispin Bates" <cbates@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

David,

I thought you wanted to fix the data as the user pasted it into their 5250 
session...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David FOXWELL" <David.FOXWELL@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:53 AM
Subject: RE: Non displayable characters in a PF


Oh you mean I need to write a program and examen every character?

I'll be disappointed if there's no SQL solution. Or REXX, maybe?

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Crispin Bates
> Envoyé : jeudi 26 mars 2009 15:23
> À : Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Objet : Re: Non displayable characters in a PF
>
> Surely that is 'C  C'. Why would you see x'34'? RPG, as an
> example, is only going to see C3, 40, 40, C3 as you look at
> each character in the string...
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David FOXWELL" <David.FOXWELL@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:02 AM
> Subject: RE: Non displayable characters in a PF
>
>
> If I had :
>
> C34040C3
>
> How do I detect that I have C3 40 40 C3 and there's no 34 in there?
>
>
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de
> Crispin Bates
> > Envoyé : jeudi 26 mars 2009 14:20 À : Midrange Systems Technical
> > Discussion Objet : Re: Non displayable characters in a PF
> >
> > The characters are < x'40' (blank). You'll have to scan through the
> > string and replace anything < x'40' with x'40'..
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David FOXWELL" <David.FOXWELL@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion"
> <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 8:30 AM
> > Subject: RE: Non displayable characters in a PF
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Sorry if I wasn't clear : we don't want user pasting this kind of
> > thing but presumably we can't prevent it unless it can be
> detected. We
> > have only discovered the characters when the contents of
> the PF were
> > written out to XML files. This caused an error in the application
> > treating the XML.
> >
> > > -----Message d'origine-----
> > > De : midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de
> > > lgoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Envoyé : jeudi 26 mars 2009 13:17 À :
> > > midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx Objet : RE: Non displayable
> > characters in a PF
> > >
> > > Word (and other programs) can contain formatting information in
> > > addition to the actual text: bold, font change, font size
> > change, etc.
> > >
> > > I've found it easiest to copy the text from Word into Notepad or
> > > UltraEdit (I use this), then copy that resulting text
> into 5250. UE
> > > and Notepad only recognize the textual data, and ignore
> formatting
> > > characteristics.
> > >
> > > HTH,
> > > Loyd
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> David FOXWELL
> > > Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 5:12 AM
> > > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> > > Subject: Non displayable characters in a PF
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Hope this isn't too vague a question :
> > >
> > > Users are copying and pasting into a green screen
> > application from MS
> > > Word and the results are saved in a PF. The user entry
> program does
> > > not display these characters and so the user doesn't
> > realise. DSPPFM
> > > shows the characters in inverse video. It's not possible
> to modify
> > > afterwards with DFU.
> > >
> > > What is missing to prevent the pasting of these unwanted
> characters?
> > > Why doesn't the data entry screen show them but DSPPFM does?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
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