TEXT

Synopsis

HELP:   Write text data to memory
TYPE:   OBJECT
SYNTAX: TEXT(METHOD=HOST/BIN/REC/TXT/NL/USS/LF/UNIX/CR/OLDMAC/CRLF/WINDOWS/SYSTEM/ORIGINAL/L4I/L4X/B4I/B4X/S4I/S4X/HLI/HLX/HBI/HBX/HSI/HSX/DLM,RPLTAB/RPLHTB[=num],RPLVTB[=num],RPLBSP,RPLCTR=SPACE/SUBSTITUTE/DELETE,SUPCTR,SUPTWS,CCSID='str'/DEFAULT/ASCII/EBCDIC/SYSTEM/LOCAL,CASE=UPPER/LOWER/FOLD/SUPPER/SLOWER/USRTAB,BOM,KEPBOM,ELF2NL,CHRMODE=STOP/IGNORE/SUBSTITUTE/IDENTITY/TRANSLIT,SUBCHAR[num/SYSTEM...],SYSTABLE=ICONV,USRTABLE='str'/NPAS/SEPA/DELA/DLAX,ONEMAP,COMBINED=NFD/NFC/AUTO/ON/OFF,REPORTFILE='str'/STDOUT/STDERR,REGEXP(),COMPRESS/CMP.{},ENCRYPT/ENC.{},ENCODE/COD.{},DUMP,INDSIZ=num,INDCHR=SPACE/TABULATOR,NOCMNT,TABLE(),AVSCAN())

Description

Format text formats UTF-8 text elements into a list of records / lines, each terminated by a delimiter. These text records are converted to a character set defined by the CSSID.

Text formatting also supports:

• Different methods to define the record/line delimiter
• Suppression of trailing whitespace
• Replacement of horizontal tabs by whitespace characters
• Suppression of remaining control characters
• Validation of or replacements in records using regular expressions

During character conversion these options are supported:

• Stopping, ignoring or substitution when encountering an invalid or incomplete character
• A freely 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 character sets
• Reporting of ignored or substituted characters
• Auto detection of charsets

If the input was read as XML, text formatting turns it into a human- readable XML document using pretty printing, i.e. with proper indentation. You can set the indentation character, the number of indentation characters printed for each indentation level and whether to suppress XML comments.

Arguments

• NUMBER: METHOD=HOST/BIN/REC/TXT/NL/USS/LF/UNIX/CR/OLDMAC/CRLF/WINDOWS/SYSTEM/ORIGINAL/L4I/L4X/B4I/B4X/S4I/S4X/HLI/HLX/HBI/HBX/HSI/HSX/DLM - Method for text formatting [SYSTEM]
  • HOST - Adds no delimiter (HOST)
  • BIN - Adds no delimiter (HOST)
  • REC - Adds no delimiter (HOST)
  • TXT - Adds the system specific delimiter (DEFAULT)
  • NL - Adds delimiter new line (USS)
  • USS - Adds delimiter for USS (new line)
  • LF - Adds delimiter line feed (UNIX)
  • UNIX - Adds delimiter for UNIX (line feed)
  • CR - Adds delimiter carriage return (MAC)
  • OLDMAC - Adds delimiter for old MACs (carriage return)
  • CRLF - Adds delimiter carriage return line feed (WIN)
  • WINDOWS - Adds delimiter for WINDOWS (carriage return line feed)
  • SYSTEM - Adds the system specific delimiter (DEFAULT)
  • ORIGINAL - Adds the original data at the end of a line (only for band FMT)
  • L4I - Adds 4 byte length fields: Little endian integer, length inclusive
  • L4X - Adds 4 byte length fields: Little endian integer, length exclusive (ZIP)
  • B4I - Adds 4 byte length fields: Big endian integer, length inclusive
  • B4X - Adds 4 byte length fields: Big endian integer, length exclusive (USS)
  • S4I - Adds 4 byte length fields: System endian integer, length inclusive
  • S4X - Adds 4 byte length fields: System endian integer, length exclusive (VAR)
  • HLI - Adds 4 byte length fields: Little endian short (LL00), length inclusive
  • HLX - Adds 4 byte length fields: Little endian short (LL00), length exclusive
  • HBI - Adds 4 byte length fields: Big endian short (LL00), length inclusive (MVS)
  • HBX - Adds 4 byte length fields: Big endian short (LL00), length exclusive
  • HSI - Adds 4 byte length fields: System endian short (LL00), length inclusive
  • HSX - Adds 4 byte length fields: System endian short (LL00), length exclusive
  • DLM - Adds binary record delimiter
• NUMBER: RPLTAB/RPLHTB=num - Replace horizontal tabulators by spaces using this tab width [0 - no replacement]
• NUMBER: RPLVTB=num - Replace vertical tabulators by new lines using this tab width [0 = no replacement]
• SWITCH: RPLBSP - Replace backspace (deletes the backspace and the byte before) [FALSE]
• NUMBER: RPLCTR=SPACE/SUBSTITUTE/DELETE - Replace remaining control characters [NONE]
  • SPACE - Replace control characters with whitespace character (0x20/0x40)
  • SUBSTITUTE - Replace control characters with substitution character (0x1A/0x3F)
  • DELETE - Remove control characters
• SWITCH: SUPCTR - Suppress control characters [FALSE] (RPLCTR=DELETE)
• SWITCH: SUPTWS - Suppress trailing whitespaces [FALSE]
• SWITCH: KEPBOM - Keep byte order mark for faster conversion
• SWITCH: DUMP - Write text dump of binary data [FALSE]
• NUMBER: INDSIZ=num - Number of XML indentation characters per indentation level [2 (SPACE) or 1 (TAB)]
• NUMBER: INDCHR=SPACE/TABULATOR - Indentation character used to indent XML tags [SPACE]
  • SPACE - Use the space character as indentation character
  • TABULATOR - Use the tabulator character as indentation character
• SWITCH: NOCMNT - Do not write out XML comments [FALSE]