EBCDIC to ASCII

[Chris H.]

Is there an easy way to convert a string that is in EBCDIC to ASCII

[David Browne]

"Chris H." <sp**@someone.else> wrote in message
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Is there an easy way to convert a string that is in EBCDIC to ASCII

Assuming that your EBCDIC is codepage 37

System.Text.Decoder EBCDICDecoder =
System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(37).GetDecoder();

Decoder.GetChars will decode an EBCDIC byte array into a .NET string. From
there you can use the ASCII encoder to encode the .NET string into a byte
array as ASCII.

Other EBCDIC code pages are listed here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...icode_81rn.asp
David

[Kyril Magnos]

After a quick Google
search(http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...to+ASCII+C%23),
I found this link:

http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/ebcdic/

(Leave it to Jon Skeet to master this... lol)

Great work Jon! :-)

--
HTH

Kyril Magnos
"I'm not a developer anymore, I'm a software engineer now!" :-)

"Chris H." <sp**@someone.else> wrote in message
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[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Kyril Magnos <ky**********@yahoo.com> wrote:

After a quick Google
search(http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...to+ASCII+C%23),
I found this link:

http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/ebcdic/

(Leave it to Jon Skeet to master this... lol)

Great work Jon! :-)

Shame it turned out to be unnecessary, as there are standard code pages
for EBCDIC. Still, it was fun - especially given that I'll probably
never use a machine which uses EBCDIC :)

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[Kyril Magnos]

Awww, c'mon, you can't invest in one of those monster IBM mainframes
anymore? Just think how nice and warm it would keep the house if you stored
it in the basement... ;-)

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Kyril
"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <sk***@pobox.com> wrote in message
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| Kyril Magnos <ky**********@yahoo.com> wrote:
| > After a quick Google
| >
search(http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...to+ASCII+C%23),
| > I found this link:
| >
| > http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/ebcdic/
| >
| > (Leave it to Jon Skeet to master this... lol)
| >
| > Great work Jon! :-)
|
| Shame it turned out to be unnecessary, as there are standard code pages
| for EBCDIC. Still, it was fun - especially given that I'll probably
| never use a machine which uses EBCDIC :)
|
| --
| Jon Skeet - <sk***@pobox.com>
| http://www.pobox.com/~skeet
| If replying to the group, please do not mail me too

[Chris H.]

Cool....Thanks Guys
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Is there an easy way to convert a string that is in EBCDIC to ASCII

[Mike Schilling]

"Kyril Magnos" <ky**********@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Awww, c'mon, you can't invest in one of those monster IBM mainframes
anymore? Just think how nice and warm it would keep the house if you stored it in the basement... ;-)

And how cool you'd stay in the summer if you rerouted its dedicated AC
upstairs :-)

[Kyril Magnos]

lmao

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HTH

Kyril Magnos
"I'm not a developer anymore, I'm a software engineer now!" :-)

"Mike Schilling" <ms*************@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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| "Kyril Magnos" <ky**********@yahoo.com> wrote in message
| news:eR**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
| > Awww, c'mon, you can't invest in one of those monster IBM mainframes
| > anymore? Just think how nice and warm it would keep the house if you
| stored
| > it in the basement... ;-)
|
| And how cool you'd stay in the summer if you rerouted its dedicated AC
| upstairs :-)
|
|

[Joerg Jooss]

Jon Skeet [C# MVP] wrote:

Kyril Magnos <ky**********@yahoo.com> wrote:

After a quick Google
search(http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...C+%2Bto+ASCII+
C%23), I found this link:

http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/ebcdic/

(Leave it to Jon Skeet to master this... lol)

Great work Jon! :-)

Shame it turned out to be unnecessary, as there are standard code
pages for EBCDIC. Still, it was fun - especially given that I'll
probably never use a machine which uses EBCDIC :)

Some time ago, while doing a Win XP installation to resurrect a friend's
installation, I realized that you can actually choose which code pages are
to be installed. I don't remember if the EBCDIC CPs where on the default
list, so your code may still be useful ;-)

Cheers,

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Joerg Jooss
jo*********@gmx.net