CNV TEXT Statement

Overview

Converting To and From alpha fields

• Both fields are RAW
  • No change in behavior
• Both fields are UNICODE or NATIONAL
  • Same basic behavior
  • UTF-32 characters are being moved.
• From RAW to UNICODE or NATIONAL
  • Same basic behavior
  • Each RAW character is transcoded to its UTF-32 character before setting into the destination field.
• From UNICODE or NATIONAL to RAW
  • Same basica behavior.
  • Each UNICODE or NATIONAL character is transocded to an 8859-15 character during the move.
  • An error will be thrown when a character can't be transcoded to 8859-15.

Converting Numeric, Date, and Logic fields

• From Alpha
  • No change in formatting behavior
  • Alpha data can be RAW, UNICODE, or NATIONAL.

Converting To and From a Record

• To Alpha from Record
  • No change in behavior.
  • Each field in the record is converted to the appropriate alpha string using the same rules that apply when converting a singer field of the same type.
• From Alpha to Record
  • No change in behavior.
  • Each field in the record is converted from the subset of the alpha field using the same rules that apply when converting a single field of the same type.

Test Plan

1. Test CNV TEXT with all combinations of RAW, UNICODE, and NATIONAL.
2. Test CNV TEXT to a Record using RAW, UNICODE, and NATIONAL alpha fields.
3. Test CNV TEXT from a Record using RAW, UNICODE, and NATIONAL alpha fields.
4. Test CNV TEXT with a Token field
5. Test CNV TEXT with Numeric, Date, and Logic fields using RAW, UNICODE, and NATIONAL alpha fields.

Bugs

-- PeteBrower - 2011-03-17