On Saturday, September 21, 2013 6:27 AM, patspiper <patspi...@gmail.com> wrote: 
> On 21/09/13 12:15, wkitt...@windstream.net wrote: 
[trim]
> > yeah, the singles are bad examples... i'm really wanting the multiple byte 
> > format to work... i tried both and was told "expected string but found 
> > byte" or 
> > "word"... it is for a translation table... in quoted-printable, everything 
> > is 
> > equalsXX... the same codes are used in utf-8... so i thought if i could 
> > just 
> > copy them directly into my array and then change the equals to dollar... 
> > 
> > i ended up getting it to work by wrapping each piece with chr() but that's 
> > really ugly visually when looking at the code to see the side by side 
> > character 
> > and replacement tables... 
> > 
> > a[n] := chr($C2)+chr($AD) for two byte codes... 
> What about a[n] := #$C2#$AD? 

i haven't tried that... my understanding is that #xx depicts the decimal format 
of the character...

eg : $FF == #255

but the data i'm working with is in hex format and trying to convert to use the 
actual characters or converting the hex to decimal is grue... especially when 
trying to create and maintain the static data tables i'm attempting to build...

anyway, i'll try to find something with regard to using #$C2... hopefully i 
won't have to spend much time locating anything ;)


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