Re: I have a txt file which i want to convert to mastercard ipm format(EBCDIC), How do I go about this

[murtuza chhil]

>  I have a txt file which i want to convert to mastercard ipm format(EBCDIC), How do I go about this

Read the ascii file and at writing time use the charset IBM1047 to convert to ebcdic.

The following snippet just writes a sample 12345678 to a file using IBM1047 charset and the binary file will contain the non printable characters for EBCDIC f0f1f2f3f4f5f6f7f8.
Alternatively, if you don’t want to do it this way, you can use the ISOUtil.ascii2ebcdic https://github.com/jpos/jPOS/blob/master/jpos/src/main/java/org/jpos/iso/ISOUtil.java#L102
pass in your ascii string data and get the ebcdic byte array that you can write. The isoutil method uses the IBM charset in the background

This is a quick and dirty snippet to give you an idea.

Path filePath = Paths.get("/path to write to/", "ebcdic.txt"); if (Files.notExists(filePath)) { Files.createFile(filePath); } Files.createDirectories(filePath.getParent()); BufferedWriter y = Files.newBufferedWriter(filePath, Charset.forName("IBM1047"), StandardOpenOption.WRITE); y.write("123456789"); // this would be data from your ascii file that needs conversion to ebcdic y.close();

The output file will have  funny characters. If viewed in an editor that understand ebcdic (or hex ) would show you F0..F8

-chhil

On Friday, March 4, 2022 at 6:38:56 AM UTC+5:30 adombaffo...@gmail.com wrote:

This is the txt file

[Mark Salter]

Why do you need to convert it?
What platform and o/s are you using?

Is there any binary data in this file?

Did it come from MasterCard? Has it already been converted to ASCII and if so how/where?

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On 3 Mar 2022, 11:39, Collins Adom Baffour < adombaffo...@gmail.com> wrote:

This is the txt file

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