Remove unprintable chars -- RPG400-L

Subject: Remove unprintable chars
From: Justin Taylor <jtaylor.0ab@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 13:30:13 -0600
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I'm preloading an old-school 5250 display file with data coming in from a
Windows app. Is there a good way to remove unprintable chars? The RPG
code is throwing a RNQ1251 (Permanent I/O error occurred in file &1). I
need to cleanse the data to prevent this.

FWIW, the current char is x'12', which is DC2 per the code page 37 chart.

TIA

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Re: Remove unprintable chars , Daniel Gross
RE: Remove unprintable chars , Pieter Henrico

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