ascii numbers to letters???

[ben1523]

Does anyone know how to convert ascii numbers into letters. I'm having trouble because what might be 152 could also be read as 15 and 2, or 1 and 52 etc.

[Mc Brain]

I don't understand what you need.... but the CHR$() might be what you're looking for.

[ben1523]

I mean if I have a txt file with ascii numbers in I want to be able to convert the numbers into their characters.

[Mc Brain]

Debug.Print Chr$(64)
   'This will print "@" in the Immediate window. (without the quotation marks)

[ben1523]

What I mean is if I had a txt file with "1635274658365857" in it how could I change them into characters, because vb could interpret what should be 163 as 16 and 3.

[Mc Brain]

Oh.... that's another problem. You should not save them that way in the text file. There's not viable way to do that. You may try to interpret if it's a possible number or not: "256" could only be read as "25" & "6", but if you have more numbers in its trail.... I would say it's quite impossible.

[Mc Brain]

If you want to save them all together, save them as an octets (lie the IPs). Instead of this 1635274658365857 save this in the text file: 016035002074065083065008057

This would lead you to the numbers 16, 35, 2, 74, 65, 83, 65, 8, 57....

see the difference?

[ben1523]

On the subject of txt files do you know how to search for 1 string in a txt file (to enable a pause function when doing large operations on strings on txt files). If I could do this I could put the string currently being read into another txt file and search for that string next time I start the App.

[Mc Brain]

what?

[JafferAB]

use the alex bunting caertified give it all youv got ascii generator

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[Drbios_Xviiii]

the Instr() Function searches for a string with in a string

and as mentioned above you should use a denoter of some kind to keep your numbers in check and then use the CHR() function to change them into their ASCII Characters