Guardian Procedure Calls Reference Manual (G06.25+)

Guardian Procedure Calls (T-V)

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TEXTTOSSID Procedure

Summary

Syntax for C Programmers

Syntax for TAL Programmers

Parameters

Considerations

Summary

TEXTTOSSID scans a character string, expecting to find the external representation of

a subsystem ID starting in the first byte (no leading spaces accepted). It returns the

internal representation of the subsystem ID it finds.

Syntax for C Programmers

Syntax for TAL Programmers

Parameters

len returned value

INT

returns the number of characters scanned from

chars.

Zero is returned if an error occurs.

chars input

STRING .EXT:ref:*

Note. In the TNS/E environment the CEXTDECS file uses the int data type for 32-bit values.

This is a change from the TNS and TNS/R environments where CEXTDECS uses the long

data type for 32-bit values.

#include <cextdecs(TEXTTOSSID)>

short TEXTTOSSID ( char *chars

,short *ssid

,[ __int32_t *status ] );

len := TEXTTOSSID ( chars ! i

,ssid ! o

,[ status ] ); ! o