cwbDT_ASCII6ToBin2

Purpose

Translates (exactly) 6 ASCII numeric characters to a 2-byte integer stored most significant byte first. (The source string is not expected to be zero-terminated.) This function can be used for translating ASCII numeric data to the iSeries™ integer format.

Unicode version

cwbDT_Wide6ToBin2

Syntax

 
unsigned int CWB_ENTRY cwbDT_ASCII6ToBin2(
                             char *target,
                             char *source);

Parameters

char * target - output: Pointer to the target (2 byte integer).
char * source - input: Pointer to the source (6 byte ASCII).

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.
other: Offset of the first untranslated character plus one.

Usage

The target data will be stored with the Most Significant Byte first. This is the format that the iSeries server uses and is the opposite of the format that is used by Intel^® x86 processors. Valid formats for the ASCII source data are as follows:

[blankspaces][sign][blankspaces][digits] or
[sign][blankspaces][digits][blankspaces]

Examples:

 " + 123"
 "- 123 "
 " +123 "
 "   123"
 "  -123"
 "+123  "