The OCONV statement is used to convert internal representations of data to their
external form.
OCONV will return the result of the conversion of expression1 by expression2. Valid conversion codes are shown below:
| Conversion |
Action |
| D{n{c}} |
Converts an internal date to an external date format. The numeric argument n specifies
the field width allowed for the year and can be 0 to 4 (default 4). The character c causes
the date to be return in the form ddcmmcyyyy. If it is not specified the month name is return in abbreviated form. |
| DI |
Allow the conversion of an external date to the internal format even though an output
conversion is expected. |
| DD |
Returns the day in the current month. |
| DM |
Returns the number of the month in the year. |
| DMA |
Returns the name of the current month. |
| DJ |
Returns the number of the day in the year (0-366). |
| DQ |
Returns the quarter of the year as a number 1 to 4 |
| DW |
Returns the day of the week as a number 1 to 7 (Monday is 1). |
| DWA |
Returns the name of the day of the week. |
| DY{n} |
Returns the year in a field of n characters. |
| F |
Given a prospective filename for a command such as CREATE-FILE this conversion will return a filename that is acceptable to the version of UNIX jBASE is running on. |
| MCA |
Removes all but alphabetic characters from the input string. |
| MC/A |
Removes all but the NON alphabetic characters in the input string. |
| MCN |
Removes all but numeric characters in the input string |
| MC/N |
Removes all but NON numeric characters in the input string |
| MCB |
Returns just the alphabetic and numeric characters from the input string |
| MC/B |
Remove the alphabetic and numeric characters from their input string. |
| MCC;s1;s2 |
Replaces all occurrences of string s1 with string s2 |
| MCL |
Converts all upper case characters in the string to lower case characters |
| MCU |
Converts all lower case characters in the string to upper case characters. |
| MCT |
Capitalizes each word in the input string; e.g. JIM converts to Jim |
| MCP{c} |
Converts all non printable characters to a period character "." in the input string. If the character "c" is supplied then this character is used instead of the period. |
| MCPN{n} |
In the same manner as the MCP conversion all non printable characters are replaced. However the replacing character is followed by the ASCII hexadecimal value of the character that was replaced. |
| MCNP{n} |
Performs the opposite conversion to MCPN. The ASCII hexadecimal value following the tilde character is converted back to its original binary character value. |
| MCDX |
Converts the decimal value in the input string to its hexadecimal equivalent. |
| MCXD |
Converts the hexadecimal value in the input string to its decimal equivalent. |
| Gncx |
Extracts x groups separated by character c skipping n groups, from the input string. |
| MT{HS} |
Performs time conversions. |
| MD |
Converts the supplied integer value to a decimal value. |
| MP |
Converts a packed decimal number to an integer value. |
| MX |
Converts ASCII input to hexadecimal characters. |
| T |
Performs file translations given a cross reference table in a record in a file. |
