RE: Finding the ascii code of a non-printable.

Well, I wasn't getting back any question mark (only numeric values, since
that's asc's "range"); but, Wow, thanks!--that really helped:

I got hex(ascw(”))=94 (or "\u0094"). It's a Cancel Character, "CCH", off
the C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement.
Awesome...thanks!!
--
HyperAnalyst


"Old Pedant" wrote:

"HyperAnalyst" wrote:

(here is a copy of the non-printable [I will put in double-quotes]:"”")
The function seems to be returning "asc(”)=63", decimal 63. Oddly enough,
the question mark on my keyboard, "?", also gives the same value, decimal 63.

Not odd, at all. The ASC( ) function will never return a value outside of
the range of 0 to 255. If the character is actually outside of that range,
it's treated as a bad translation and you get back a question mark.

Now try using
ASCW( )
where the "W" stands for "W"ide characters. That is, Unicode characters,
which are what VBS *always* uses.

But chances are good that the value you get will be 65535 (which is hex
0xFFFF) meaning that you really have a wrongly translated character, in the
first place. But maybe not.

Personally, I always use
HEX(ASCW(...))
because I find the hex easier to read and look up in various tables.




How could 2 different "characters" be transformed to the same value, through
"asc()"? Are they really different "characters"? Could this be an
indication of a VB Scripting bug?
.

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