In Python, "chr" gives a 1-byte string from a small integer, "ord" does the reverse. Strings are concatenated with "+" and substrings are taken with the slice operator, s[pos1:pos2].
I'm not a visual basic expert, but it looks like these are the operations the code below performs. Jeff
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