CharToNum Depricated??

[Bob Sneidar]

Also, if charToNum is deprecated, what do I use to compare t he ascii values of two characters??

Bob S


> On Sep 13, 2024, at 3:44 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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> I am having an issue where I am trying to compare the data of two files I read from disk character by character. To the naked eye, both files are identical. If I open each file in Sublime Text and do a fileDiff, it declares they are identical. But when I look at the actual file size, one is slightly larger than the other. Also, when I compare the ascii values of each character, right off the bat with the first character, charToNum reports that in one file the first character is “F” which is correct. But for the second file, it is “?” which is NOT CORRECT!!!
> 
> Now one file I generated by converting a Konica Minolta address book to a Toshiba address book. I won’t go into the gory details, but remember both files I am comparing look identical and SublimeText thinks they are identical. 
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> My suspicion is that the source file, the Konica Minolta address book is unicode. What I did. to try and get around this is I used textDecode(it, “ASCII”) on the data read from the disk, but I am still getting the same results. 
> 
> My goal is to read the data as ascii data with NO UNICODE  and then export it with NO UNICODE. 
> 
> Bob S
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