On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 14:10, Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm reading in a WORD (2 bytes) from a binary file. I can display the > Hex format of that value without a problem, but I would also like to > display the String value of that WORD variable. It's the first 2 bytes > of a file, which contains the "magic number" of the file. > > I would like my program to output the following: > > ----------------- > Header Section > header.ID (5348h = "HS") > ... > -----------------
w: WORD ... YourString := Chr(Lo(w)) + Chr(Hi(w)) or YourString := Chr(Hi(w)) + Chr(Lo(w)) (depending on endianness) > > > -- > Regards, > - Graeme - > > > _______________________________________________ > fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit > http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pas...@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal > -- Aleksa Todorovic - Lead Programmer Eipix Entertainment http://www.eipix.com/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal