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Victor
Victor

Reputation: 1879

Ruby EBCDIC conversion with String#encode instead of iconv

I used to do it fine with:

Iconv.iconv('ASCII', 'EBCDIC-US', someEBCDICstring)

since ruby 1.9 I get that warning: 

iconv will be deprecated in the future, use String#encode instead.

but I can't find any reference of EBCDIC or cp37, cp500, cp875... in the Encoding class:

p Encoding.name_list

Am I supposed to import it from somewhere? Can I add it myself?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1010

Answers (3)

knut
knut

Reputation: 27875

In Ruby 2.3 the EBCDIC-encoding is added:

Encoding

new Encoding::IBM037 (alias ebcdic-cp-us; dummy)

So this should work:

str = 'xx'
str.encode('IBM037')

Upvotes: 1

mckenzm
mckenzm

Reputation: 1830

require 'iconv' # sudo apt-get install ruby-dev && sudo gem install iconv

This works for me...

# set up translation to EBCDIC
trsl = Iconv.new('EBCDIC-US','ASCII')

# translate value
ebcdic = trsl.iconv(somestring)

Upvotes: 0

AndrewPK
AndrewPK

Reputation: 6150

You can still use the gem - https://rubygems.org/gems/iconv

(And here are the docs - http://rubydoc.info/gems/iconv/1.0.3/frames)

Upvotes: 1

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