Description
Converts a character string to an ANSI blob.
Syntax
ToAnsi ( string )
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.
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