Adxium

Adxium is a numeric value that defines the coding method used for writing or reading character strings in a text file by the instructions Wrseq and Rdseq.

Syntax

adxium
Iomode adxium EXPRESSION Using [ABBREVIATION]

• EXPRESSION is an alphanumeric expression returning the value of the separator.
• ABBREVIATION is the abbreviation that has been used to open the file by Openi, Openo, or Openio.

Comments

Note that this is a global value for all the files opened. Using the Iomode instruction gives you the control on every file opened; which is preferable.

The values that are associated with adxium are the following:

• 50 corresponds to an ASCII file.
• 122 corresponds to an UCS2 file. Every character takes 2 bytes in the file.
• Any other value corresponds to a UTF8 file. This coding is identical to ASCII for the classic characters (those less than 128), and a more complex coding on 2, 3 even 4 bytes for the other characters.

By default, Adxium is set to a coding in UTF8.

Examples

# Let's read a text file generated in UCS2 with CR+LF at the end of every line
# And let's write the result in a UTF8 coded file with LF at the end of every line
Subprog COPY_FROM_UCS2_TO_UTF8(INPUT_FILE,OUTPUT_FILE)
Value Char INPUT_FILE(), OUTPUT_FILE()
Local Char BUFFER(250) : # The lines must not exceed 250 characters
  Openi INPUT_FILE Using [INP]
  Iomode adxifs '' Using [INP]
  Iomode adxirs chr$(13)+chr$(10) Using [INP]
  Iomode adxium 122 Using [INP] : # UCS2
  Openo OUTPUT_FILE Using [OUT]
  Iomode adxifs '' Using [OUT]
  Iomode adxirs chr$(10) Using [OUT]
  Iomode adxium 0 Using [OUT] : # UTF8
  Repeat
     Rdseq BUFFER Using [INP]
     If fstat
        If BUFFER<>""
           Wrseq BUFFER; Using [OUT]
        Endif
     Else
        Wrseq BUFFER Using [OUT]
     Endif
   Until fstat
   Openo Using [OUT]
   Openi Using [INP]
End

See also

adxifs, adxirs, Rdseq, Wrseq, Openi, Openo, Openio.