Reading and decoding binary data

[Richard Gaskin]

prothero wrote:

 > Mainly, what I was wondering is if the byteToNum command is the
 > correct one. In images, its the convert character to number, but
 > I thought the character commands for binary data were going to
 > be deprecated.

Yes, for comparing a single-byte value, byteToNum is the better choice.

Very soon charToNum may involve multi-byte sequences for Unicode, so all 
code that uses it where a single-byte value is needed should be updated 
to use byteToNum instead.

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