Replace text with full ASCII code?

does anyone have that code that will replace everything in data.txt with it's ASCII code? or a function that will do it? Something like this:

Private Function ASCII(data As String) As String
data = Replace(data, ">", "%3E")
data = Replace(data, "`", "%60")
data = Replace(data, "{", "%7B")
data = Replace(data, "|", "%7C")
data = Replace(data, "}", "%7D")
data = Replace(data, "~", "%7E")
data = Replace(data, ":", "%3A")
data = Replace(data, ";", "%3B")
data = Replace(data, "<", "%3C")
data = Replace(data, "=", "%3D")
data = Replace(data, Chr(34), "%22")
PostASCII = data
End Function

I dont think i can find all the ascii. does anyone have it done already?

The numbers you see there are ascii codes, but they are in hexecimal form. The %XX is URL encoding. I have function for this in the HTTP POST/GET program in my sig:

VB Code:

' url encodes a string
Function URLEncode(ByVal str As String) As String
        Dim intLen As Integer
        Dim X As Integer
        Dim curChar As Long
        Dim newStr As String
                
        intLen = Len(str)
        newStr = ""
        
        ' encode anything which is not a letter or number
        For X = 1 To intLen
            curChar = Asc(Mid$(str, X, 1))
            
            
            If curChar = 32 Then
                ' we can use a + sign for a space
                newStr = newStr & "+"
            ElseIf (curChar < 48 Or curChar > 57) And _
                (curChar < 65 Or curChar > 90) And _
                (curChar < 97 Or curChar > 122) Then
                
                
                newStr = newStr & "%" & Hex(curChar)
            Else
                newStr = newStr & Chr(curChar)
            End If
        Next X
        
        URLEncode = newStr
End Function

That doesn't encode everything, beause not all characters need to be encoded. What is it you need it for?

I need it for winsock, when i used a packet sniffer everything was in ASCII (
the data is really large). So what i wanted to do was have normal text then encode that text to ASCII, then send it using winsock.

When you send a character via winsock, it is sent as ASCII, a string is after all a sequence of ASCII values. If the connection you were looking at was an HTTP connection, some data will be URL Encoded, the reasonfor this is to prevent data like spaces and commas from being interpretted as something else.