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Date:	Sun, 31 Aug 2003 07:26:38 PDT7
From:	"Harry Motin" <hmotin@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	"Peter Skye" <pskye@peterskye.com > ,
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: REXX SysTempFileName function

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Peter:

Here are the results:

[C:\]rexxtry say '0123456789ABCDEFGH'
0123456789ABCDEFGH
................................................ REXXTRY.CMD on OS/2

[C:\]rexxtry say XRANGE('30'x,'39'x)XRANGE('41'x,'48'x)
0123456789ABCDEFGH
................................................ REXXTRY.CMD on OS/2

[C:\]rexxtry say X2C('303132333435363738394142434445464748')
0123456789ABCDEFGH
................................................ REXXTRY.CMD on OS/2

HCM

On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 04:24:49 PDT7, Peter Skye wrote:

>Harry Motin wrote:
>>
>> >> I can't remember the Rexx function
>> >> that expands f('00'h..'11'h) to the
>> >> '0123456789ABCDEFGH' character string.
>>
>> How 'about the REXX function "X2C()"? Please see below:
>>
>> Here are some examples:
>> X2C('4865 6c6c 6f') -> 'Hello' /* ASCII */
>> X2C('3732 73') -> '72s' /* ASCII */
>
>Hi Harry,
>
>That works too.
>
>I was looking for a "shorthand" method to obtain '0123456789ABCDEFGH'
>and was trying to remember XRANGE. Unfortunately XRANGE doesn't work
>too well because the hex values for 0..9 and A..H aren't contiguous ('9'
>is 39h while 'A' is 41h).
>
>The shortest way to write the string is to just write it. :)
>
> '0123456789ABCDEFGH'
> XRANGE('30'x,'39'x)XRANGE('41'x,'48'x)
> X2C('303132333435363738394142434445464748')
>
>and if anybody wants to check just cut & paste the following to a
>command line (you can do all three lines at once):
>
> rexxtry say '0123456789ABCDEFGH'
> rexxtry say XRANGE('30'x,'39'x)XRANGE('41'x,'48'x)
> rexxtry say X2C('303132333435363738394142434445464748')
>
>- Peter
>
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