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Re: How do I output FourCharCode variable as text?

On 11/27/03 7:31 AM, Jim Hamilton wrote:
> I can break that!
>
> Print(0x30004142);
>
> would be rendered as "0".

If it breaks, don't do that!

The FourCharCode type is for four character codes, as you can tell by the
name. This is not a user input type where we need to handle extreme and
nonsensical values. It is a type created by developers for developers. All
we need to do is establish a reasonable convention and follow it. A simple
hack allows using the type to convey numbers up to 538976287 (0x2020201F).
That is a lot of numbers. If that is not enough for your application, use a
different type, such as UInt32 or CFStringRef.

Regards,

Tom

--
Tom Becker "Within C++, there is a much smaller and
Object-Oriented Propeller Head cleaner language struggling to get out."
<email@hidden> -- Bjarne Stroustrup
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