Should I Use ascii?

Hello, in my app using winsock once data is sent to the server app the data becmes the tag for that winsock in the array that sent it, and i want to use symbols such as ( ) : - but it wont let me put them into a tag, should I use ascii? or is there no way of doing this

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Originally Posted by robcarr2

Hello, in my app using winsock once data is sent to the server app the data becmes the tag for that winsock in the array that sent it, and i want to use symbols such as ( ) : - but it wont let me put them into a tag, should I use ascii? or is there no way of doing this

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Ypou could use ASKII to do it but before that data could be used again you would need to convert it back and you would need to find some way of seperating the characters.


Cheers,

RyanJ

hmmm, you know any other way i could do this then?