And another way, especially if that string is too long:
As a side note, this seems to be overkill for a simple task. It's kind of hard to imagine why the source system could not generate an array or a delimited string thereby marking boundaries for individual characters.
tyler_durden
Last edited by durden_tyler; 08-16-2009 at 09:17 PM..
after converting my ebcidic file to ascii i get the following output
2097152+0 records in
1797345+1 records out
Why is there a difference in number of records.
Is the converson chopping off any records.
All i am doing is just a conversion using the following script
dd if=xaa cbs=152 ... (0 Replies)
Hi frnds :)
I need a small help...
I have a very long file containing 20 digits decimal number which i want to convert into the corresponding 16 digit hexadecimal values.
File looks like....
11908486672755551741
05446378739602232559
04862605079740156652
.
.
.
I tried the script
for i... (7 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a data file which has binary and hexa decimal data..i tried to convert that file using dd and od commands but i am getting some numbers and junk values...
Please let me know is there any other command which can convert this file to ascill.
Awaiting your responses
-Mora (4 Replies)
Hi All,
Please let me know if it is possible to convert data from ASCII to Packed Decimal through Unix?
Basically we have ASCII file with numeric data we want to convert that files data to Packed decimal format to send it to main frame.
Please let me know if we can do it through unix script.... (1 Reply)
Dear All PROs
Thanks in advance
need a shell for Decimal to hex conversion
input file (decimal values)
65,5,48,66,133,131,118,47
65,5,48,66,133,131,83,63
.
.
desire output should be (Hex value)... (11 Replies)
Hi,
I have got a library file, created by compiling C code. The file information with "file" command, gives it a "application/x-archive" type file. I want to extract the release string of my software from this file, so that i can know which version of C files were used to create the lib.
Can... (3 Replies)
I am writing a bash script to do some parsing on a log and I am running into a problem when it comes to converting only certain sections of the file from hex to ascii or hex to decimal.
Data Example:
The hex values after Hardware and SW Version I need to convert from Hex to ASCII and the... (16 Replies)
Hi,
I have a input file which is EBCIDIC and it has packed decimals.
Can anyone help me to convert EBCIDIC file to ASCII(Need to convert even Packed decimal values also to normal format).
Thanks
swapna (12 Replies)
Hi,
We have a mainframe file which is in EBCDIC format.We dont have direct access to mainframe ,client has provided us the mainframe file.The mainframe file is containing pact data(COMP1 ,COMP2 etc) which are unreadble.Can anyone suggest me how to convert this kind of ebcdic file to ascii... (11 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
bytes
bytes(3perl) Perl Programmers Reference Guide bytes(3perl)NAME
bytes - Perl pragma to force byte semantics rather than character semantics
NOTICE
This pragma reflects early attempts to incorporate Unicode into perl and has since been superseded. It breaks encapsulation (i.e. it
exposes the innards of how the perl executable currently happens to store a string), and use of this module for anything other than
debugging purposes is strongly discouraged. If you feel that the functions here within might be useful for your application, this possibly
indicates a mismatch between your mental model of Perl Unicode and the current reality. In that case, you may wish to read some of the perl
Unicode documentation: perluniintro, perlunitut, perlunifaq and perlunicode.
SYNOPSIS
use bytes;
... chr(...); # or bytes::chr
... index(...); # or bytes::index
... length(...); # or bytes::length
... ord(...); # or bytes::ord
... rindex(...); # or bytes::rindex
... substr(...); # or bytes::substr
no bytes;
DESCRIPTION
The "use bytes" pragma disables character semantics for the rest of the lexical scope in which it appears. "no bytes" can be used to
reverse the effect of "use bytes" within the current lexical scope.
Perl normally assumes character semantics in the presence of character data (i.e. data that has come from a source that has been marked as
being of a particular character encoding). When "use bytes" is in effect, the encoding is temporarily ignored, and each string is treated
as a series of bytes.
As an example, when Perl sees "$x = chr(400)", it encodes the character in UTF-8 and stores it in $x. Then it is marked as character data,
so, for instance, "length $x" returns 1. However, in the scope of the "bytes" pragma, $x is treated as a series of bytes - the bytes that
make up the UTF8 encoding - and "length $x" returns 2:
$x = chr(400);
print "Length is ", length $x, "
"; # "Length is 1"
printf "Contents are %vd
", $x; # "Contents are 400"
{
use bytes; # or "require bytes; bytes::length()"
print "Length is ", length $x, "
"; # "Length is 2"
printf "Contents are %vd
", $x; # "Contents are 198.144"
}
chr(), ord(), substr(), index() and rindex() behave similarly.
For more on the implications and differences between character semantics and byte semantics, see perluniintro and perlunicode.
LIMITATIONS
bytes::substr() does not work as an lvalue().
SEE ALSO
perluniintro, perlunicode, utf8
perl v5.14.2 2010-12-30 bytes(3perl)