Why am I reminded of the Karate Kid?
Hex-on, hex-off?
At 03:42 PM 12/22/2023, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Fri, 22 Dec 2023 16:23:31 -0500, Bob Bridges wrote:
>Just to be pedantic, aren't ~all~ characters hex characters?
>
I think the only hex characters are 0-9 and A-F.
> ... That is, they can be expressed in hex. I suppose (but I'm
not sure) that "non-hex character" is intended to mean a character
that can be expressed directly, eg a space can be expressed as
'40'x or as ' '. Whereas a tab character in EBCDIC needs to show
up as '05'x; there's no way to insert it into my data with the <Tab> character.
>
It's easy if you use the right editor.
--
gil
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