Map a Natural Data Area

Natural subprogram to convert to/from character, hexadecimal and binary strings. 

Character string of length L.

Hex format as 1 string of length 2*L; or 2 strings each of length 1L.

Binary as 1 string length 8*L; or 8 strings each of length 1L.

 This example outlines how to issue a SOAP call using the Natural REQUST DOCUMENT statement plus parsing the response using PARSE XML

This code sample adds Case 4 to Steve Robinson's post "Eliminating Special Characters from a String".

From the fertile imagination of Paul Macgowan.

This posting explains how Natural typically handles Group Names (and Group Array Names).

Then, we explain Natural's one departure from the "typical" handling, namely

how they are treated when used in conjunction with READ WORK FILE RECORD.

This posting is a continuation of the previous post. The intent is to provide an understanding
of the basics of DYNAMIC Variables in the hope that programmers will be more "comfortable"
with their use, and begin to utilize them more than appears to be the case at present.

This posting will discuss some of the basics associated with DYNAMIC variables.
In particular, we will look at how *LENGTH is set, and how REDUCE and EXPAND
impact *LENGTH.

In a subsequent posting we will go further in our discussion of DYNAMIC variables.
We will discuss when to use them, when not to use them, and, when not to use
EXPAND, REDUCE, and RESIZE (most of the time, contrary to what I have seen
many programmers doing).

This program shows several ways to eliminate Special Characters from a string.

The performance comparison indicates that what might be a counter intuitive fastest alternative is indeed the best performing of the three alternatives shown.