How to convert from EBCDIC to ASCII in C#.net

Question

I have a value in EBCDIC format "000000{". I want to convert it into a.Net Int32 type. Can anyone let me know what I can do about it?? So my question is given a string that contains a signed numeric in EBCDIC , what should I be doing to convert it into a .NET Int32.

Thanks so much in advance!

Answer 1

Try this

    #region public static byte[] ConvertAsciiToEbcdic(byte[] asciiData)
    public static byte[] ConvertAsciiToEbcdic(byte[] asciiData)     
    {          
        // Create two different encodings.         
        Encoding ascii = Encoding.ASCII;
        Encoding ebcdic = Encoding.GetEncoding("IBM037");          

        //Retutn Ebcdic Data
        return Encoding.Convert(ascii, ebcdic, asciiData);      
    }     
    #endregion      

    #region public static byte[] ConvertEbcdicToAscii(byte[] ebcdicData)
    public static byte[] ConvertEbcdicToAscii(byte[] ebcdicData)
    {         
        // Create two different encodings.      
        Encoding ascii = Encoding.ASCII;
        Encoding ebcdic = Encoding.GetEncoding("IBM037"); 

        //Retutn Ascii Data 
        return Encoding.Convert(ebcdic, ascii, ebcdicData); 
    } 
    #endregion