Reading and decoding binary data

[prothero at earthednet.org]

Thanks, Richard. That lets me anticipate the new changes. I'm also modifying images and I'l convert that code to use byteToNum.
Bill
William Prothero
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On Mar 13, 2014, at 9:44 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:

> 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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