ASCII32-126

Pipelines v1.9

.* Example by TenFiftyTwo(c).

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.* The following pipeline displays the decimal, hexadecimal and binary values for each
.* of the ASCII characters in the range 32-126. The output is displayed on the console
.* and written to the file: ASCII.txt.
 
.* The pipeline is intended to demonstrate how the specs stage can be used to transform
.* characters to their decimal, hexadecimal and binary values.
 
pipe (endchar ?)
 literal x20-x7e .* Generate a literal in the range 32-126.
 | split before x20-x7e .* Separate the literal into individual characters.
 | specs recno from 32 1 .* Put record number in column 1..
 1-* c2x nw .* ..its hexadecimal representation next..
 1-* c2b nw .* ..followed by its binary representation..
 1-* nw .* ..followed by the actual ascii character.
 | a: drop 48 .* Drop 48 records..
 | j: specs select 1 1-* 1 .* Build a two column output record from..
 select 0 1-* nw .* ..each of the two input streams.
 | cons .* Display on the console.
 | > &sysdrive:\Documents and Settings\&username\My Documents\ASCII.txt
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 a:
 | elastic .* Accept the first 48 records.
 | j: .* Route back to specs.