There's an old engineering joke that says: “Standards are great … everyone should have one!” The problem is that – very often – everyone does. Consider the case of storing textual data inside a ...

Note: This program does not convert the file to ASCII. It only interprets the first five records in the file as ASCII values and writes them to the SAS log. The transport file remains unchanged. Code ...

SYDNEY, Nov. 24, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Ground Labs, a global leader in the payment card industry, recently introduced EBCDIC support to make its security and auditing software solutions for PCI ...

The character code built into the computer determines how each letter, digit or special character ($, %, #, etc.) is represented in binary code. Fortunately, there are only two methods in wide use: ...

The following lists the EBCDIC character set and its hexadecimal representation. Not all of the 256 possible combinations of the byte are used.

These formats are not discussed in detail in this section because the EBCDIC character-encoding system is their only host-specific aspect. $ASCIIw. converts EBCDIC ...