[Info-vax] OpenVMS - DCL - Data entry filtering

[Henry Crun]

On 03/26/2015 08:15 PM, JF Mezei wrote:
> I realise the OP said 7.3
>
> In 8.3 wasn't there a F$REPLACE lexical added ? or is that just in my
> imagination ?
>
> Also, wouldn't it be more efficient to built a 256 character string,
> containing the replacement character for each possible source character,
> and then converting the source character into an index from which you
> can f$extract the replacement character ?
>
>
... as I mentioned : XLATE$
IIRC there is an XLATE in COBOL, too

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