MPE/iX Quick Reference Guide (32650-90881)

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Intrinsics Descriptions
Descriptions of the Intrinsics Available in MPE/iX
character. Nondisplayable characters are those with attribute 3 (undefined graphic
character) or 5 (control code), as returned by
itemnum =12 of the NLINFO intrinsic.
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NLREPCHAR( inbuffer,outbuffer,bufferlength,replacechar,langnum,error , charset )
;
NLSCANMOVE
NM and CM callable.
Scans and moves character strings according to character attributes. This function is
handled in a language-dependent manner.
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numchar :=NLSCANMOVE( inbuffer,outbuffer,flags,bufferlength,langnum,error ,
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charset,shiftinfo );
NLSUBSTR
NM and CM callable.
Extracts
movelength bytes from the instring to the outstring .
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NLSUBSTR( instring,inlength,outstring,outlength,startposition,movelength,
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langnum,flags,error , charset );
NLSWITCHBUF
NM and CM callable.
Converts a string of characters from phonetic order to screen order or from screen order to
phonetic order.
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NLSWITCHBUF( langnum,instring,outstring,stringlength,left-to-right,error );
NLTRANSLATE
NM and CM callable.
Translates a string of characters from EBCDIC-to-ASCII or ASCII-to-EBCDIC using the
appropriate native language table.
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NLTRANSLATE( transcode,inbuffer,outbuffer,bufferlength,langnum,error ,
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transtable );