Re: Hex string conversion

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From: Jeff Johnson [MVP: VB] (pawprint_at_com.geocities)
Date: 06/16/04 

Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 00:02:49 -0400

"Larry Serflaten" <serflaten@usinternet.com> wrote in message
news:OZGTMVyUEHA.2972@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

> Just to cover all the bases, if your data stream consists of bytes, with
the
> values you've shown, then it already is an ASCII text string.

And if the data stream contains the characters that the poster indicated
then it too is an ASCII text string! I do so wish people could phrase
questions so as to ask for what they really want: "I want to create a string
of ASCII characters from the Hex values in my input stream."

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