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Appendix G
Appendix GAppendix G
Appendix G
Handling Space Characters
Handling Space CharactersHandling Space Characters
Handling Space Characters
in Downloading
in Downloadingin Downloading
in Downloading
Space characters used as padding characters
Space characters used as padding charactersSpace characters used as padding characters
Space characters used as padding characters
A data file can be downloaded with System Mode or an XFILE statement according to the
communications protocol which is designed to eliminate trailing spaces padded in the tail of
each data field.
The BHT has a new feature which can handle trailing spaces in a data field as data.
The figure below shows the process in which the spaces used as padding characters are
eliminated. (Note that spaces between a and b and between b and c in field 3 are not padding
characters.)
1 234A BC D a b c
4 1 2344 AB C D 5a b c
1 234 AB C D a b c
Downloading a data file
Host computer
Field 1 Field 2 Field 3
]
]
]
]
]
]
]
( denotes a space character.)
]
is the count byte of a
significant data length
in a field.
Field 1
Field 2 Field 3
]
]
]
]
BHT
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