ASCII

The ASCII f unction converts all the characters in the expression from the EBCDIC character set to the
ASCII character set.

COMMAND SYNTAX

ASCII(expression)

SYNTAX ELEMENTS
The expression may return a data string of any form. The f unction will then assume that the characters
are all members of the EBCDIC character set and translate them using a character map. The original
expression is unchanged while the returned result of the function is now the ASCII equivalent.

EXAMPLE
Create the f ile test.txt in hex editor containing the following characters (in hex):

C8 85 93 93 96 40 91 C2 C3

Run the f ollowing program:

OSREAD the_line FROM 'test.txt' ELSE NULL CRT ASCII(the_line)

Output:

Hello jBC