Re: ASCII
Re: ASCII
- Subject: Re: ASCII
- From: "Arthur J Knapp" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:32:26 -0500
>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 07:00:22 -0500
>
From: Robert Poland <email@hidden>
>
Subject: ASCII
>
I'm confused - All the recent comments seem to imply that
>
AppoleScript /ASCII conversions deal only with the decimal
>
equivalents. Danny Goodman's book doesn't mention which he uses. His
>
table is the decimal conversion, Although he doesn't mention which,
>
or why, he is using.
>
>
Has Hexadecimal use been discontinued in the programming world?
No, it has just never formally been introduced into the
AppleScript world. The primary means of working with
character-codes in AppleScript is thru the ASCII Scripting
Addition commands, and they only accept decimal notation.
I belive that there are third-party osaxen that may accept
hex-notation, (in the form of strings, "$FF"), but these are
outside of the experience of most AppleScript scripters.
What *should* be discontinued in the programming world is
the use of octal notation. If I read one more darn Unix
document that uses octals, I may have to hurt myself. ;-)
--
{
Arthur J Knapp, of STELLARViSIONs ;
http://www.STELLARViSIONs.com ;
mailto:email@hidden ;
"...well the rain falls down
without my help, I'm afraid
and my lawn gets wet,
though I withheld my consent..."
}