Scripting a text to binary digits converter

[Guglielmo Braguglia]

You can or specify the number of character you want, or the "*" symbol 
which means ALL  ;)

Guglielmo


On 02.01.2012 21:36, -=>JB<=- wrote:
> When I did a quick read of binaryEncode() I was thinking
> it said you could enter the number of chars you want to
> convert which would eliminate the need for a repeat
> structure but I did not try it and could be wrong.
>
> -=>JB=-
>
>
> On Jan 2, 2012, at 12:23 PM, Bryan McCormick wrote:
>
>> JB, Guglielmo
>>
>> This appears to work for my purposes and is pretty speedy. See anything that might break?
>>
>> ---------------------------------------
>>
>> function convertTextToBinary varText
>>    repeat with n = 1 to the number of chars of varText
>>       put chartonum(char n of varText) into theNum
>>       if theNum>=64 and theNum<= 127 then
>>          put "0"&baseConvert(theNum,10,2) after tConverted
>>       else if theNum<="64" then
>>          put "00"&baseConvert(theNum,10,2) after tConverted
>>       else
>>          put baseConvert(theNum,10,2) after tConverted
>>       end if
>>    end repeat
>>    return tConverted
>> end convertTextToBinary
>>
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