CHAR

Synopsis

HELP:   Write character data to memory
TYPE:   OBJECT
SYNTAX: CHAR(CCSID='str'/DEFAULT/ASCII/EBCDIC/SYSTEM/LOCAL,CASE=UPPER/LOWER/FOLD/SUPPER/SLOWER/USRTAB,BOM,KEPBOM,CHRMODE=STOP/IGNORE/SUBSTITUTE/IDENTITY/TRANSLIT,ELF2NL,SUBCHAR[num/SYSTEM...],SYSTABLE=ICONV,USRTABLE='str'/NPAS/SEPA/DELA/DLAX,ONEMAP,REPORTFILE='str'/STDOUT/STDERR,COMBINED=NFD/NFC/AUTO/ON/OFF,COMPRESS/CMP.{},ENCRYPT/ENC.{},ENCODE/COD.{},TABLE(),AVSCAN())

Description

Format char simply concatenate the block elements and does character conversion from UTF-8 to the default or provided character set.

During the character conversion it supports:

• Stop, ignore or substitution of invalid or incomplete character
• A free defined substitution character list
• Different system substitution / transliteration tables
• A user defined substitution table to change the system tables
• Case management (upper, lower, folding and special casing)
• Transliteration between subsets (mapping) and normalization
• BOM management and automatic detection of char sets
• Reporting of ignored or substituted characters
• Auto detection of charsets

Arguments

• SWITCH: KEPBOM - Keep byte order mark for faster conversion