Inline Code Example HereHi guys,
below is a function which converts ebcdic to ascii and it works for a buffer, i need to modify it in accordance to a file,which i am unable to do as i am not very good with C, tried my luck everywhere but did not get through.Please please do help me :

static  unsigned char
        ASCII_translate_EBCDIC [file*c_file] =
            {
            0x00, 0x01, 0x02, 0x03, 0x04, 0x05, 0x06, 0x07, 0x08,
            0x09, 0x0A, 0x0B, 0x0C, 0x0D, 0x0E, 0x0F,
            0x10, 0x11, 0x12, 0x13, 0x14, 0x15, 0x16, 0x17, 0x18,
            0x19, 0x1A, 0x1B, 0x1C, 0x1D, 0x1E, 0x1F,
            0x40, 0x5A, 0x7F, 0x7B, 0x5B, 0x6C, 0x50, 0x7D, 0x4D,
            0x5D, 0x5C, 0x4E, 0x6B, 0x60, 0x4B, 0x61,
            0xF0, 0xF1, 0xF2, 0xF3, 0xF4, 0xF5, 0xF6, 0xF7, 0xF8,
            0xF9, 0x7A, 0x5E, 0x4C, 0x7E, 0x6E, 0x6F,
            0x7C, 0xC1, 0xC2, 0xC3, 0xC4, 0xC5, 0xC6, 0xC7, 0xC8,
            0xC9, 0xD1, 0xD2, 0xD3, 0xD4, 0xD5, 0xD6,
            0xD7, 0xD8, 0xD9, 0xE2, 0xE3, 0xE4, 0xE5, 0xE6, 0xE7,
            0xE8, 0xE9, 0xAD, 0xE0, 0xBD, 0x5F, 0x6D,
            0x7D, 0x81, 0x82, 0x83, 0x84, 0x85, 0x86, 0x87, 0x88,
            0x89, 0x91, 0x92, 0x93, 0x94, 0x95, 0x96,
            0x97, 0x98, 0x99, 0xA2, 0xA3, 0xA4, 0xA5, 0xA6, 0xA7,
            0xA8, 0xA9, 0xC0, 0x6A, 0xD0, 0xA1, 0x4B,
            0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B,
            0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B,
            0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B,
            0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B,
            0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B,
            0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B,
            0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B,
            0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B,
            0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B,
            0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B,
            0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B,
            0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B,
            0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B,
            0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B,
            0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B,
            0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B, 0x4B } ;
            **void EBCDIC_to_ASCII(size_t len,unsigned char *s){ // full buffer
       register unsigned char *buf;
       register int j;
       for(buf=s,j=len;j;j--,buf++) *buf=EBCDIC_translate_ASCII[*buf];
       return;
}**

Just open the file and read it one character at a time, passing each character to that function.

void foo()
{
    ifstream in("filename.txt");
    ofstream out("newfilename.txt");
    char c;
    while( in >> c )
    {
       out << EBCDIC_translate_ASCII[c];
    }
}
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