cwbDT_ASCIIPackedToPacked

Purpose

Translates data from ASCII packed format to packed decimal. This function can be used for translating data from ASCII files to the iSeries™ system format.

Unicode version

None.

Syntax

 
unsigned int CWB_ENTRY cwbDT_ASCIIPackedToPacked(
                             char         *target,
                             char         *source,
                             unsigned long length);

Parameters

char * target - output

Pointer to the target data.

char * source - input

Pointer to the source data.

unsigned long length - input

Number of bytes of source data to translate.

Return Codes

The following list shows common return values.

CWB_OK

Successful Completion.

CWB_INVALID_POINTER

NULL pointer was passed by caller.

other

Offset of the first untranslated character plus one.

Usage

The caller must make sure that there is adequate space to hold the target information. This function checks that each half-byte of the packed decimal data is in the range of 0 to 9. The only exception is the last half-byte which contains the sign indicator (which can be 0x3 or 0xb).