NET/MASTER Network Control Language (NCL) Reference Manual

E2A

Built-in Functions

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E2A The E2A built-in function translates an input string from EBCDIC to ASCII.

E2A(

string

[, T ] )

string

specifies the EBCDIC string. The output string is the same length.

specifies that textual translation is to be performed. The EBCDIC string is

assumed to be textual data. This option is implied if omitted. No special

consideration is given to signed decimal number codes.

Considerations

Characters that have no ASCII equivalent are translated to 'FF'x.

Table 4-4 shows the standard translation table, indexed by the EBCDIC code.

Table 4-4. EBCDIC to ASCII Translation Table

Bottom 4 EBCDIC bits in HEX

Top 4 0123456789ABCDEF

0 00010203FF09FF7FFFFFFF0B0C0D0E0F

1 10111213FFFF08FF1819FFFFFF1DFF1F

2 FFFF1CFFFF0A171BFFFFFFFFFF050607

3 FFFF16FFFF1EFF04FFFFFFFF1415FF1A

4 20FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF2E3C282BFF

5 26FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF21242A293B5E

6 FF2FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF7C2C255F3E3F

7 FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF603A2340273D22

8 FF616263646566676869FFFFFFFFFFFF

9 FF6A6B6C6D6E6F707172FFFFFFFFFFFF

A FF7E737475767778797AFFFFFF5BFFFF

B FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF5DFFFF

C 7B414243444546474849FFFFFFFFFFFF

D 7D4A4B4C4D4E4F505152FFFFFFFFFFFF

E 5CFF535455565758595AFFFFFFFFFFFF

F 30313233343536373839FFFFFFFFFFFF