cwbDT_ASCIIToZoned

Purpose

Translates ASCII numeric data to EBCDIC zoned decimal format. This function can be used for translating ASCII text data for use on the iSeries™ server.

Unicode version

cwbDT_WideToZoned

Syntax

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

Parameters

char * target - output

Pointer to the target data.

char * source - input

Pointer to the source data. Must be zero terminated.

unsigned long length - input

Number of bytes of target data to translate.

unsigned long decimalPosition - input

Position of the decimal point.

Return Codes

The following list shows common return values.

CWB_OK

Successful Completion.

CWB_INVALID_POINTER

NULL pointer was passed by caller.

CWB_BUFFER_OVERFLOW

Overflow error.

CWB_NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY

Unable to allocate temporary memory.

other

Offset of the first untranslated character plus one.

Usage

The caller must make sure that there is adequate space to hold the information. The sign half-byte will be set to 0xd to indicate a negative number and hex 0xc to indicate a positive number. 0 <= decimalPosition <= length. Valid formats for the ASCII numeric data are as follows:

• [blankspaces][sign][blankspaces][digits] or
• [sign][blankspaces][digits][blankspaces] or
• [sign][digits][.digits][blankspaces] or
• [blankspaces][sign][digits][.digits][blankspaces]