TYPE

Synopsis

HELP:   Converts a neutral FL5 element of a certain data type to an external representation
TYPE:   OVERLAY
SYNTAX: TYPE.{BINARY(ENCODE/DECODE=OFF/BASE16/BASE32/BASE64,CHRSET=NONE/SYSTEM/ASCII/UCS1/UTF8/EBCDIC/UCS2BE/UTF16BE/UCS2LE/UTF16LE/UCS4BE/UTF32BE/UCS4LE/UTF32LE/LOCAL,OFFSET=num,LENGTH=num)/STRING(REGEXP(PATTERN='str',REPLACE='str',NOCASE,MULTILINE,DOT4ALL,EXTENDED,NOCAPTURE,SUBALL,RPLONLY,FMTERR,IGNREC),CHRSET(CCSID='str'/DEFAULT/ASCII/EBCDIC/SYSTEM/LOCAL,CASE=UPPER/LOWER/FOLD/SUPPER/SLOWER/USRTAB,MODE=STOP/IGNORE/SUBSTITUTE/IDENTITY/TRANSLIT,COMBINED=NFD/NFC/AUTO/ON/OFF,SYSTABLE=ICONV,USRTABLE='str'/NPAS/SEPA/DELA/DLAX,WHITESPACE=PRESERVE/REPLACE/COLLAPSE/REMOVE/TRAILING/LEADING/BOTH/NUMBER,SUBCHAR[num/SYSTEM...],ONEMAP),NUMBER(FORMAT='str',LOCALE='str',MINIMUM='str',MAXIMUM='str',MININCL,MAXINCL,IGNREST,BASE=num/BIN/B02/OCT/B08/DEC/B10/HEX/B16),MODE=STOP/CUT,FIXEDLENGTH=num,PADDING=NONE/RIGHT/LEFT,PADCHAR='bin'/BINARY-ZERO/ASCII-BLANK/EBCDIC-BLANK/UTF08-BLANK/UTF16BE-BLANK/UTF16LE-BLANK/UTF32BE-BLANK/UTF32LE-BLANK,NULLTERM)/INTEGER/INT(FORMAT.{BIN(SIGNED,ENDIAN=SYSTEM/BIG/LITTLE/LOCAL,WIDTH=num/W08/W16/W32/W64)/BCD(SIGNED,TYPE=UNPACKED/PACKED/ZONED,ZONE=SYSTEM/ASCII/EBCDIC,DIGITS=num,BYTES=num)/STR(CHRSET=NONE/SYSTEM/ASCII/UCS1/UTF8/EBCDIC/UCS2BE/UTF16BE/UCS2LE/UTF16LE/UCS4BE/UTF32BE/UCS4LE/UTF32LE/LOCAL,BASE=num/BIN/B02/OCT/B08/DEC/B10/HEX/B16,CASE=UPPER/LOWER,SIGN=IFNEGATIVE/SPACEIFPOSITIVE/PLUSIFPOSITIVE,DIGITS=num,FIXEDLENGTH=num,PADDING=NONE/RIGHT/LEFT,PADCHAR='bin'/BINARY-ZERO/ASCII-BLANK/EBCDIC-BLANK/UTF08-BLANK/UTF16BE-BLANK/UTF16LE-BLANK/UTF32BE-BLANK/UTF32LE-BLANK,GROUPSEPARATOR/MARKER=num/NON/OFF/SYSTEM/PERIOD/COMMA/SPACE/APOSTROPHE,VALUE='str',USEEID,NULLTERM)/ENUM(ITEM[(VALUE='str',NUMERICAL=num)...],CHRSET(CCSID='str'/DEFAULT/ASCII/EBCDIC/SYSTEM/LOCAL,CASE=UPPER/LOWER/FOLD/SUPPER/SLOWER/USRTAB,MODE=STOP/IGNORE/SUBSTITUTE/IDENTITY/TRANSLIT,COMBINED=NFD/NFC/AUTO/ON/OFF,SYSTABLE=ICONV,USRTABLE='str'/NPAS/SEPA/DELA/DLAX,WHITESPACE=PRESERVE/REPLACE/COLLAPSE/REMOVE/TRAILING/LEADING/BOTH/NUMBER,SUBCHAR[num/SYSTEM...],ONEMAP),MODE=STOP/CUT,FIXEDLENGTH=num,PADDING=NONE/RIGHT/LEFT,PADCHAR='bin'/BINARY-ZERO/ASCII-BLANK/EBCDIC-BLANK/UTF08-BLANK/UTF16BE-BLANK/UTF16LE-BLANK/UTF32BE-BLANK/UTF32LE-BLANK,NULLTERM)},MINIMUM='str',MAXIMUM='str',MINEXCL,MAXEXCL)/INT64(FORMAT.{BIN(SIGNED,ENDIAN=SYSTEM/BIG/LITTLE/LOCAL,WIDTH=num/W08/W16/W32/W64)/BCD(SIGNED,TYPE=UNPACKED/PACKED/ZONED,ZONE=SYSTEM/ASCII/EBCDIC,DIGITS=num,BYTES=num)/STR(CHRSET=NONE/SYSTEM/ASCII/UCS1/UTF8/EBCDIC/UCS2BE/UTF16BE/UCS2LE/UTF16LE/UCS4BE/UTF32BE/UCS4LE/UTF32LE/LOCAL,BASE=num/BIN/B02/OCT/B08/DEC/B10/HEX/B16,CASE=UPPER/LOWER,SIGN=IFNEGATIVE/SPACEIFPOSITIVE/PLUSIFPOSITIVE,DIGITS=num,FIXEDLENGTH=num,PADDING=NONE/RIGHT/LEFT,PADCHAR='bin'/BINARY-ZERO/ASCII-BLANK/EBCDIC-BLANK/UTF08-BLANK/UTF16BE-BLANK/UTF16LE-BLANK/UTF32BE-BLANK/UTF32LE-BLANK,GROUPSEPARATOR/MARKER=num/NON/OFF/SYSTEM/PERIOD/COMMA/SPACE/APOSTROPHE,VALUE='str',USEEID,NULLTERM)/ENUM(ITEM[(VALUE='str',NUMERICAL=num)...],CHRSET(CCSID='str'/DEFAULT/ASCII/EBCDIC/SYSTEM/LOCAL,CASE=UPPER/LOWER/FOLD/SUPPER/SLOWER/USRTAB,MODE=STOP/IGNORE/SUBSTITUTE/IDENTITY/TRANSLIT,COMBINED=NFD/NFC/AUTO/ON/OFF,SYSTABLE=ICONV,USRTABLE='str'/NPAS/SEPA/DELA/DLAX,WHITESPACE=PRESERVE/REPLACE/COLLAPSE/REMOVE/TRAILING/LEADING/BOTH/NUMBER,SUBCHAR[num/SYSTEM...],ONEMAP),MODE=STOP/CUT,FIXEDLENGTH=num,PADDING=NONE/RIGHT/LEFT,PADCHAR='bin'/BINARY-ZERO/ASCII-BLANK/EBCDIC-BLANK/UTF08-BLANK/UTF16BE-BLANK/UTF16LE-BLANK/UTF32BE-BLANK/UTF32LE-BLANK,NULLTERM)},MINIMUM='str',MAXIMUM='str',MINEXCL,MAXEXCL)/FLOAT(FORMAT.{BIN(TYPE=SYSTEM,ENDIAN=SYSTEM/BIG/LITTLE/LOCAL,WIDTH=num/W32/W64)/BCD(SIGNED,TYPE=UNPACKED/PACKED/ZONED,ZONE=SYSTEM/ASCII/EBCDIC,INTDIGITS=num,FRACDIGITS=num,ROUNDING[=AWAYFROMZERO/NEAREST/TOWARDZERO/ERROR],BYTES=num)/INT(FRACDIGITS=num,ROUNDING[=AWAYFROMZERO/NEAREST/TOWARDZERO/ERROR],ENDIAN=SYSTEM/BIG/LITTLE/LOCAL,WIDTH=num/W32/W64)/STR(CHRSET=NONE/SYSTEM/ASCII/UCS1/UTF8/EBCDIC/UCS2BE/UTF16BE/UCS2LE/UTF16LE/UCS4BE/UTF32BE/UCS4LE/UTF32LE/LOCAL,SIGN=IFNEGATIVE/SPACEIFPOSITIVE/PLUSIFPOSITIVE,INTDIGITS=num,SEPARATOR=SYSTEM/PERIOD/COMMA/APOSTROPHE,FRACDIGITS=num,ROUNDING[=AWAYFROMZERO/NEAREST/TOWARDZERO/ERROR],FIXEDLENGTH=num,PADDING=NONE/RIGHT/LEFT,PADCHAR='bin'/BINARY-ZERO/ASCII-BLANK/EBCDIC-BLANK/UTF08-BLANK/UTF16BE-BLANK/UTF16LE-BLANK/UTF32BE-BLANK/UTF32LE-BLANK,VALUE='str',NULLTERM,USEEID)},MINIMUM='str',MAXIMUM='str',MINEXCL,MAXEXCL)}

Description

The WRITE overlay for a element data conversion allows to choose a type specific conversion. It specifies how the data is converted from a neutral FLAM5 data type into an external representation.

The currently supported data types and conversions are explained in a dedicated chapter.