converting string to hex like so:

for x = 1 to len(source)
target = target & hex(ascw(mid(source,x,1)))
next

How to convert it back to a string?

I got as far as:

for x = 1 to len(source) step 2
target = target & chr("&H" & mid(source,x,2))
next

but this fails with the pound sign (£ - £)

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Can't you just use the escape() and unescape() methods? These convert to
hex and back.

Stan Scott
New York City

"Net Mongrel" <netmongrel@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:9TZLc.5980$AI5.60994688@news-text.cableinet.net...[color=blue]
> converting string to hex like so:
>
> for x = 1 to len(source)
> target = target & hex(ascw(mid(source,x,1)))
> next
>
> How to convert it back to a string?
>
> I got as far as:
>
> for x = 1 to len(source) step 2
> target = target & chr("&H" & mid(source,x,2))
> next
>
> but this fails with the pound sign (£ - &pound;)
>
> --
> Net
>
>[/color]

Stan Scott wrote:[color=blue]
> "Net Mongrel" <netmongrel@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:9TZLc.5980$AI5.60994688@news-text.cableinet.net...[color=green]
>> converting string to hex like so:
>>
>> for x = 1 to len(source)
>> target = target & hex(ascw(mid(source,x,1)))
>> next
>>
>> How to convert it back to a string?
>>
>> I got as far as:
>>
>> for x = 1 to len(source) step 2
>> target = target & chr("&H" & mid(source,x,2))
>> next
>>
>> but this fails with the pound sign (£ - &pound;)
>>[/color]
> Can't you just use the escape() and unescape() methods? These
> convert to hex and back.
>[/color]

Thanks Stan, that's javascript right? I did a little digging and played
around with the calls. They don't really do what I had in mind.

I do need to get the hex pairs for each character and then change them back.

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