Re: TIB: Converting characters to a numeric (ASCII) value.
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Re: TIB: Converting characters to a numeric (ASCII) value.
whoops... that is what you said. sorry. yeah that is the only way
you can do that kinda stuff.
---The Garth Johnson <gbjohnson@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> the only thing i can figure you can do is a brute force method. I
> don't have my 85 right now so i don't know if this is exactly right...
> ok what you have to do is get a string with every single character in
> it. In the right order.
> "char1 char2 char3 char4 char5 char6 char7 char8 char9.... all the way
> to char255" There wouldn't be any spaces between the seperate chars.
>
> then do a for loop
> :for x,1,255
> :if "A"==sub(list,x,1
> :disp A,"=",x
> :end
>
> what that basically does is it searches each character in the string
> and sees if it is the same character as the one you are testing for.
> If they are the same, it displays the number x that gives that
> character.
>
> you have to have the characters in the right order!!!
>
> does this make any sense?
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> does this have anything to do with the dimentionti's challenge?
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> ---Greg Miller <greg.miller@usa.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Is there any way to convert a character to a numerical value,
> > and then back again. I'm not talking about converting "13" to 13,
but
> > rather converting the character "A" to 65, then being able to
convert
> > 65 back to "A".
> > If the TI doesn't use ASCII, that's fine, I just need to be
> > able to manipulate characters with arithmetic operations, then
convert
> > them back to characters.
> > Right now, I have a big long string of all the characters and
> > a subroutine which scans through them all and returns an index into
> > the string. So anything better than that would be helpful.
> >
> > I'm using a TI-86.
> >
> > Greg Miller: Senior Consultant (IT Security/Programming)
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> >
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