Text to Ascii

Well I just started learning VB, as I started a course at school. So far everything is going good and I'm loving it, and trying out different things.

I'm looking for any tips on how to convert entire sentences or even whole text files to ASCII, or from ASCII back to text.

Bits of code for my simple converter/generator:

Code:

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Private Sub Command1_Click()
Rem generates an ASCII list of the codes ranging from 65 to 126

Dim n As Integer
Dim a As Integer
        picError.Cls
        Picture1.Cls
    If a = 0 Then
    For n = 65 To 126                    'start of the iteration / the loop starts
        Picture1.Print n, Chr(n)        'this is the action that repeats
        Next                            'end of iteration (loop)

        picError.Print "You have generated ASCII "
        picError.Print "Codes, make sure to click"
        picError.Print "Clear before you generate "
        picError.Print "them again!"
        a = 1

    End If
If chkGenerateError = True Then ' checks whether the hidden OptionButton is set to true or false
    picError.Cls
    Picture1.Cls
    picError.Print "You have not cleared the"          ' if the button is set to true then it prints an error in the picture box
    picError.Print "boxes, please clear the boxes"
    picError.Print "before generating ASCII"
    picError.Print "codes again!"
End If
    chkGenerateError.Value = True          ' sets the optionbutton to true allowing an error to print next time the ascii button is pressed without clearing
chkExit = 0
End Sub

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Code:

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Private Sub txtConverter_KeyPress(KeyAscii As Integer)
Rem this piece of code is the basis of the key to ascii converter. it can be changed by changing Asc() with Chr(), which will then print the key for the ascii number
        picConvert.Cls
    If KeyAscii = 13 Then
        picConvert.Print Asc(txtConverter)  ' uses Asc(txtConverter) to convert a letter or symbol in the text box to it's corresponding ASCII code
    End If                                  ' use Chr(txtConverter) to swap it around and convert ascii codes to a letter or symbol
                                            ' you will need to change Label3 and Label5's caption value around for it to make sense, but it is not strictly neccessary for it function
End Sub

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It's not completely finished or tidied up and I've got a heap of comments stuck in there for reminders, but it shows what I've got done. As you can see from the second code box it lets me convert a singular text or ASCII code back and forth, but I can't figure out how to get whole sentences working. If anyone would be kind enough to show me some examples or give some tips it would be very much appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

Hello!

Why your posts counter is zero? However, welcome to the forums.
There is a quite simple way, to convert a string data into ascii codes, by converting it to a byte array.

Code:

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Dim aASC() As Byte, sText As String, i As Long

sText = "Let me guess"                          'Test string.
aASC = StrConv(sText, vbFromUnicode)  'Convert it. It will not be a unicode, but a simple byte array as well.

For i = 0 To UBound(aASC)
  Debug.Print Mid$(sText, i + 1, 1) & " = " & CStr(aASC(i)) 'print out the letter and its corresponding byte value, that is the asc() value as well.
Next

'and now, you can convert the byte array back to a plain string like this:

sText = StrConv(aASC, vbUnicode)
Debug.Print sText

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So, strConv is a very usefull method for this kind of job as well. :) Just use vbFromUnicode to split into byte array, then vbUnicode to 'glue' it into a string.

try this..

it will convert the string at text1 to ascii and put the ascii data to text2
you need 2 textboxes and a command button on a form..

Code:

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Private Sub Command1_Click()

Dim xstr, ystr As String
Dim xnum As Integer
Dim inum As Long


xnum = Len(Trim(Text1.Text))
ystr = Mid(Text1.Text, inum, 1)
 

 
For inum = 1 To xnum
ystr = Mid(Text1.Text, inum, 1)
xstr = Asc(ystr)
Text2.Text = Text2.Text & xstr
Next


End Sub

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Quote:

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Dim xstr, ystr As String

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In this declare the xstr will be a Variant type. I would recommend you to use a long, byte or integer types, instead of variant, because variant is one of the slowest value type.

Code:

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Dim xstr As Long, ystr As String


'...

xstr = Asc(ystr)
Text2.Text = Text2.Text & CStr(xstr)

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