Re: Is it possible to declare that variable contains ASCII data?

[Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Blake,

if you are playing around with converting from to ASCII I have a lot of
subprocedures in powerEXT Core that does that - it is open source -
free - and fell free to copy the code - it is MIT licensed





On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:25 PM, <BButterworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks for the information. Charles. I've used both iconv() and QDCXLATE,
> but wasn't cognizant of issues with the latter. It stands to reason,
> however, given the variants of ASCII and EBCDIC and because it uses
> deprecated ASCII table. I've used the API in the past as a quick way to
> translate to ASCII when needed since it is somewhat less coding than
> iconv(). Thankfully, I haven't run into problems, but I'll stick with
> iconv() going forward.
>
> Blake
>
>
>
> date: Wed, 2 May 2012 15:46:52 -0400
> from: Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>
> subject: Re: Is it possible to declare that variable contains ASCII
>                 data?
>
>  QDCXLATE is not recommended....
>
> iconv() is the better option
>
> See here:
> http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200408/msg00502.html
> http://www.rpgworld.com/rpg-world/showascii
>
> Charles
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