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

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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