Re: Increment an alpha field by "1" -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Increment an alpha field by "1"
From: Adam Glauser <adamglauser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 08:22:56 -0400
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Scott Klement wrote:

The problem with your approach, Vern (you knew this was coming, right?) is that EBCDIC letters aren't always contiguous.

I suppose you could convert you letter to Unicode (RPG's "C" data type) and add 1 there. Unicode letters are all contiguous, so that'd work better.. but it still seems like a lot of screwing around.

Is there a gap between the digits and the letters? Am I remembering correctly that Unicode matches ASCII for Latin characters and digits?

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