Guardian Procedure Calls Reference Manual (G06.25+)

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PACKEDIT Procedure
PACKEDIT Procedure
Summary
Syntax for C Programmers
Syntax for TAL Programmers
Parameters
Considerations
Related Programming Manual
Summary
The PACKEDIT procedure converts a line image from unpacked format into EDIT
packed line format. The input value is a text string that can include sequences of blank
characters; the returned value is the same text in packed format with blank
compression codes.
PACKEDIT is an IOEdit procedure and is intended for use with files that have been
opened by OPENEDIT or OPENEDIT_.
Syntax for C Programmers
Syntax for TAL Programmers
Parameters
unpacked-line input
STRING .EXT:ref:*
is a string array that contains the line in unpacked format that is to be converted.
The length of
unpacked-line is specified by the unpacked-length parameter.
#include <cextdecs(PACKEDIT)>
void PACKEDIT ( char *unpacked-line
,short unpacked-length
,char *packed-line
,short packed-limit
,short *packed-length
,[ short full-length ] );
CALL PACKEDIT ( unpacked-line ! i
,unpacked-length ! i
,packed-line ! o
,packed-limit ! i
,packed-length ! o
,[ full-length ] ); ! i