ASCII TO EBCDIC: how ?

Hi,
I want to write the highest value of the EBCDIC data
into an ASCII file in Java.

In other words,
I only to need to produce one value, and this value corresponds to the highest value in EBCDIC.

Thanks for your help.

Not sure what you are asking.
What is the 'highest value of the EBCDIC data'?
Do you have a file with EBCDIC data you want to convert to ASCII?

What is a value? A single byte? Like xFF?

Could you explain your problem a bit more and perhaps give an example?

Hi,
thanks for replying.
Well, I do not know much about EBCDIC.
I will give more details:
I am working on Windows XP, using Eclipse. I am writing a batch that will generate an ASCII file which will be read by another program in a mainframe environment.
They have asked me to include in that line the xFF EBCDIC value.

How do I do that ?
Thanks

Well a value such as xFF is just a value. The difference between ASCII, ANSI, EBCDIC, etc is how the values are interpreted. For example, the value 75 (decimal) is a 'K' in ASCII, but a full stop (period) in EBCDIC.

This link has a table of ASCII and EBCDIC codes side by side, though I'm sure you can easily find nicer ones with Google.

thanks very much again for the info, much appreciated

Does anyone know of a concrete example on how to convert a single ASCII character into a EBCDIC one ?

Thanks !

can anyone help me here, please ?
It's urgent

Originally posted by Max longbeach:
can anyone help me here, please ?
It's urgent

This looks like a good starting point: http://www.dynamoo.com/technical/ascii-ebcdic.htm

To convert one byte to another:
Create a 256 byte table with the target values and use the source value as an index.
For example say you want to map x01 to x07: