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Re:String tokenization in C by zozbot123 on Saturday December 15, 2018 @06:03PM (#18690834)
EBCDIC famously does not have A..Z as contiguous characters, and I wouldn't describe it as a 'franken-coding' just yet - it still finds plenty of use in some places.
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Re:String tokenization in C by fork1 on Saturday December 15, 2018 @06:35PM (#18690953)
Unless you're dealing with mainframes, it's not like you see it everyday.
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Re:String tokenization in C by loeg on Saturday December 15, 2018 @06:40PM (#18690970)
EBCDIC is a classic example of a franken-coding.

If your compiler's source character set is EBCDIC and you want to parse ASCII files, you must use 0x41, etc, instead of 'A'.

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