When I was doing something similar I had think I used a PACKED RECORD As a buffer to access the individual bytes Delphi adds padding bytes to word align the data and these may be tripping you up.
Steven -----Original Message----- From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of Marshland Engineering Sent: Friday, 5 August 2011 3:22 p.m. To: delphi@delphi.org.nz Subject: Re: [DUG] HEX to decimal What version of Delphi are you using? Could the string be returned as a Unicode string? or is it an AnsiString?I'm using Ver 6 Apparently ORD works with 1 for the first character and not 0 just to be confusing !!! PS Using 0 returns a blank. _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.clearswift.com ********************************************************************** _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe