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The Question is:
Using f$fao to perform data conversion.
Hello,
I have a variety of indexed, rms files which I would like to extract and
convert data to text. The data is stored as binary, numeric, alpha, bcd,
F_numeric and Numeric_F. How can I use f$fao to convert these datatypes to text?
Do you have any dcl commnad procedures that I could use as a model?
The Answer is :
DCL cannot directly represent nor directly process formats such as
floating point and BCD.
Bitfields, integers, and strings can be processed, using DCL lexicals
including f$fao and (more commonly) f$cvui. Bitfield insertions are
also possible, using the substring operators available within symbol
substitution. Bitfields can be used for booleans, and for integers.
Examples of substring operations exist in the string operator (the
colon-equals and equals-sign) help topics, and in the help topic
for f$cvui. The help library also provides examples for f$fao, of
course.
An application program that processes the file data accordingly, and
that then creates DCL symbols (strings or strings containing floating
point, etc) via calls to lib$set_symbol is also easily feasible.
OpenVMS documentation and books are available on the topic of DCL.
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