ToAnsi

Description

Converts a character string to an ANSI blob.

Syntax

ToAnsi ( string )

Argument

Description

string

A character string you want to convert to an ANSI blob


Return value

Blob.

Returns an ANSI blob if it succeeds and an empty blob if it fails.

Usage

The ToAnsi function converts a Unicode character string to an ANSI blob. ToAnsi has the same result as Blob(string, EncodingANSI!) and will be obsolete in a future version of PowerBuilder.

Unicode file format

Unicode files sometimes have two extra bytes at the start of the file to indicate that they are Unicode files. If you are opening a Unicode file in stream mode, skip the first two bytes if they are present.

See also

Blob

FromAnsi

FromUnicode

ToUnicode