Guardian Programming Reference Summary for pTAL and TAL

Procedure Calls Summary (G-N)
Guardian Programming Reference Summary for pTAL and TAL—522631-001
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MBCS_SHIFTSTRING_
Upshifts or downshifts all alphabetic characters in a multibyte character set (MBCS)
string.
MBCS_TANDEM_TO_EXTERNAL_
Translates a text string from Tandem internal format to a specified external text format.
CALL MBCS_SHIFTSTRING_ ( bytestring
,bytecount
,casebit
,[ charset ]
,[ charinfo ] );
bytestring, STRING .EXT:ref:* input
bytecount, INT:value input
casebit, INT:value input
charset, INT:value input
charinfo, INT .EXT:ref:1 output
error-code := MBCS_TANDEM_TO_EXTERNAL_ (
[ source-string ]
,[ destination-string ]
,source-length
,maximum-length
,[ intermediate ]
,external-form
,[ finished-length ]
,[ shift-to-DBCS ]
,[ shift-to-one-byte ] );
error-code, INT:value returned value
0 Successful completion of the translation
-1 Translation truncated due to lack of destination buffer space
-2 Unknown translation requested
-3 Invalid source string length
-4 Invalid character in Kanji-only source string