debian man page for language::intercal::charset::ebcdic

Query: language::intercal::charset::ebcdic

OS: debian

Section: 3pm

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INTERCAL::Charset::EBCDIC(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			    INTERCAL::Charset::EBCDIC(3pm)

NAME
Charset::EBCDIC - allows to use EBCDIC string constants in ASCII programs (and v.v.)
SYNOPSIS
use Charset::EBCDIC 'ascii2abcdic'; my $a = ebcdic2ascii "(EBCDIC text)";
DESCRIPTION
Charset::EBCDIC defines functions to convert between a subset of ASCII and a subset of nonstandard EBCDIC (since there isn't such a thing as a standard EBCDIC we defined our own variant which is guaranteed to be incompatible with all versions of EBCDIC used by IBM hardware - however, when we have chosen a code for a character, we have made sure that at least one - but certainly not all - IBM models used that same code, so the choice cannot be criticised). If you really want to know, several variants of EBCDIC are listed in RFC 1345, which is available from the usual sources. Two functions, ebcdic2ascii and ascii2ebcdic are exportable but not exported by default. They do the obvious thing to their first argument and return the transformed string.
EBCDIC CHARACTER TABLE
The following are the characters recognised. The ones shown as 2 letter abbreviations cannot be translated to ASCII (except for the control characters, which do have an ASCII equivalent). + 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f Notes 00 OV TA LF CR OV=overstrike 10 TA=tab 20 LF=linefeed 30 CR=carr-return 40 SP CT . < ( + ! SP=space 50 & ] $ * ) ; NO CT=cents 60 - / XO | , % _ > ? NO=not-sign 70 : # @ ' = " XO=XOR(1) 80 a b c d e f g h i 90 j k l m n o p q r { [ a0 ~ s t u v w x y z RE RE=registered b0 ^ PO CO PO=pound c0 A B C D E F G H I CO=copyright d0 J K L M N O P Q R } e0 S T U V W X Y Z f0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 DE DE=delete(1) The symbol for the INTECAL XOR operator, "V overstrike -".
COPYRIGHT
This module is part of CLC-INTERCAL. Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2007 Claudio Calvelli, all rights reserved See the files README and COPYING in the distribution for information.
SEE ALSO
A qualified psychiatrist. perl v5.8.8 2008-03-29 INTERCAL::Charset::EBCDIC(3pm)
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