Informats for NLS

$VSLOGw. Informat

Reads a character string that is in visual order, and then converts the character string to left-to-right logical order.

Category:

BIDI text handling

Syntax

$VSLOGw.

w

specifies the width of the input field.

Default:	200
Range:	1-32000

The $VSLOGw. informat performs processing that is opposite of the $VSLOGRw. informat.

The following example uses the Hebrew input value of " [Examples] flight".

Statements	Result
	----+----1----+
x=input (' ',$vslog12.); put x;	flight

Statements

Result

----+----1----+

x=input (' [untitled graphic]

',$vslog12.);

put x;

flight

The following example uses the Arabic input value of " [untitled graphic] computer."

Statements	Result
	----+----1----+
x=input (' computer',$vslog12.); put x;	computer

Statements

Result

----+----1----+

x=input (' [untitled graphic]

computer',$vslog12.);

put x;

computer