Re: Strip a ™ character

JB sundown at pacifier.com
Wed Oct 1 18:41:08 EDT 2014


If someone wants to give me that part of the
code I bet I could fix it.  I wrote conversions
for ascii-hex-binary in hypercard years ago
and there is not that much to it.

John Balgenorth



On Oct 1, 2014, at 3:01 PM, JB <sundown at pacifier.com> wrote:

> It looks to me the code is good.  I guess
> someone decided they could Trade Mark ™
> Binary to Hex.
> 
> In Hex it shows up as either a A or AA.  You
> would think it would always be AA since that
> is the Hex value for ™.
> 
> It is easy to strip the ™ from the beginning of
> Hex code because Hex always starts with a
> number but there could be two A”s at the end
> of Hex code so stripping them could cause you
> problems.
> 
> John Balgenorth
> 
> 
> On Oct 1, 2014, at 9:56 AM, JB <sundown at pacifier.com> wrote:
> 
>> It could be I am writing the part below wrong.
>> 
>> repeat with x = 1 to the len of theData -8 step 8
>> 
>> What I am trying to do is get 8 characters and process
>> the eight characters and do it for the length of theData.
>> Is that written wrong?
>> 
>> John Balgenorth
>> 
>> 
>> On Oct 1, 2014, at 8:35 AM, JB <sundown at pacifier.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I am converting binary to hex and
>>> this code is giving me a problem.
>>> 
>>> replace return with empty in theData
>>> repeat with x = 1 to the len of theData -8 step 8
>>>    put BaseConvert(char x to (x+7) of theData,2,16) into theConv
>>>    put theConv after tData
>>> end repeat
>>> 
>>> The first thing I do is strip the returns.
>>> It works good for a single line but for
>>> some reason a hidden character is put
>>> in the file where a retun was.  If I only
>>> had one return and it is at the end of
>>> the line when it is converted back to
>>> ascii the return is replace with a ™.
>>> It does not have the period after.
>>> 
>>> Does anyone know how to strip the ™ character?
>>> 
>>> John Balgenorth
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