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Top Forums Programming Convert HEX to EBCDIC IN C Post 302261161 by junaid.nehvi on Monday 24th of November 2008 12:23:42 AM
Old 11-24-2008
Convert HEX to EBCDIC IN C
i want to convert Hex value To EBCDIC value.
i tried to convert hex to ascii and then to ebcdic but it doesn't give desired results .

it doesn't give corresponding ebcdic value instead it gives some junk values.
e.g;
Hex EBCDIC
-----------------
81 a
82 b
83 c
84 d
85 e
86 f
87 g
88 h
89 i


Hex EBCDIC
-----------------
C1 A
C2 B
C3 C
C4 D
C5 E
C6 F
C7 G
C8 H
C9 I


code is as:
//********************************************************************
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <time.h>
static unsigned char a2e[256] = {
0, 1, 2, 3, 55, 45, 46, 47, 22, 5, 37, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15,
16, 17, 18, 19, 60, 61, 50, 38, 24, 25, 63, 39, 28, 29, 30, 31,
64, 79,127,123, 91,108, 80,125, 77, 93, 92, 78,107, 96, 75, 97,
240,241,242,243,244,245,246,247,248,249,122, 94, 76,126,110,111,
124,193,194,195,196,197,198,199,200,201,209,210,211,212,213,214,
215,216,217,226,227,228,229,230,231,232,233, 74,224, 90, 95,109,
121,129,130,131,132,133,134,135,136,137,145,146,147,148,149,150,
151,152,153,162,163,164,165,166,167,168,169,192,106,208,161, 7,
32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 21, 6, 23, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 9, 10, 27,
48, 49, 26, 51, 52, 53, 54, 8, 56, 57, 58, 59, 4, 20, 62,225,
65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87,
88, 89, 98, 99,100,101,102,103,104,105,112,113,114,115,116,117,
118,119,120,128,138,139,140,141,142,143,144,154,155,156,157,158,
159,160,170,171,172,173,174,175,176,177,178,179,180,181,182,183,
184,185,186,187,188,189,190,191,202,203,204,205,206,207,218,219,
220,221,222,223,234,235,236,237,238,239,250,251,252,253,254,255
};
static unsigned char e2a[256] = {
0, 1, 2, 3,156, 9,134,127,151,141,142, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15,
16, 17, 18, 19,157,133, 8,135, 24, 25,146,143, 28, 29, 30, 31,
128,129,130,131,132, 10, 23, 27,136,137,138,139,140, 5, 6, 7,
144,145, 22,147,148,149,150, 4,152,153,154,155, 20, 21,158, 26,
32,160,161,162,163,164,165,166,167,168, 91, 46, 60, 40, 43, 33,
38,169,170,171,172,173,174,175,176,177, 93, 36, 42, 41, 59, 94,
45, 47,178,179,180,181,182,183,184,185,124, 44, 37, 95, 62, 63,
186,187,188,189,190,191,192,193,194, 96, 58, 35, 64, 39, 61, 34,
195, 97, 98, 99,100,101,102,103,104,105,196,197,198,199,200,201,
202,106,107,108,109,110,111,112,113,114,203,204,205,206,207,208,
209,126,115,116,117,118,119,120,121,122,210,211,212,213,214,215,
216,217,218,219,220,221,222,223,224,225,226,227,228,229,230,231,
123, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73,232,233,234,235,236,237,
125, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82,238,239,240,241,242,243,
92,159, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90,244,245,246,247,248,249,
48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57,250,251,252,253,254,255
};
char ASCIItoEBCDIC(const unsigned char c)
{
return a2e[c];
}
char EBCDICtoASCII(const unsigned char c)
{
return e2a[c];
}
int main()
{
char outarr[10];
int i = 0,j=0;
char hexval[10]="c1c2c3c4c5";
char newstrValue;
char hexToAscii(char first, char second)
{
char hex[5], *stop;
hex[0] = '0';
hex[1] = 'x';
hex[2] = first;
hex[3] = second;
hex[4] = 0;
return strtol(hex, &stop, 16);
}
for (i=0;i<10 ;i++)
{
outarr[j]= hexToAscii(hexval[i], hexval[i + 1]);

outarr[j]=ASCIItoEBCDIC(outarr[j]);
printf("ebcdic value is %c\n",outarr);
}

exit(0);
}
//********************************************************************

aftre compiling i get following result.

$>./ebcdictoascii
ebcdic value is :
ebcdic value is :
ebcdic value is :
ebcdic value is :
ebcdic value is :
ebcdic value is :
ebcdic value is :
ebcdic value is :
ebcdic value is :
ebcdic value is :
 

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