FromAnsi

Description

Converts a blob containing an ANSI character string to a Unicode string.

Syntax

FromAnsi ( blob )

Argument

Description

blob

A blob containing an ANSI character string you want to convert to a Unicode string

Returns

String. Returns a character string if it succeeds and an empty string if it fails.

Usage

The FromAnsi function converts an ANSI character string contained in a blob to a Unicode character string.

FromAnsi has the same result as String(blob, EncodingANSI!) and will be obsolete in a future release of PowerBuilder.

NoteUnicode file format Unicode files sometimes have two extra bytes at the start of the file to indicate that they are Unicode files.

See also