Bill Kressbach wrote:
> The code is for monitoring the Emergency Alert System (EAS) for a radio
> station. Sometimes a little noise from the receiver will add a few bytes of
> data to the beginning of the message while the receiver is trying to lock
> up. This latest one is 00 00 FF 00 FF 00 00 (HEX). These characters will
> sometimes confuse the software causing strange results. So I need to remove
> them. I am a little concerned about the amount of time required to remove
> them but I could try a modification of Ed's code by keeping anything between
> 20 and 127.
If time is an issue you might clock these too and use the fastest (the
second one assumes the foreign characters appear only at the beginning
of the string) :
LPARAMETERS targetStr
local bad, ii
bad = ""
FOR ii = 0 TO 19
bad = bad + CHR(ii)
ENDFOR
FOR ii = 128 TO 255
bad = bad + CHR(ii)
ENDFOR
RETURN STRTRAN(targetStr, bad)
lparameters targetStr
local ii
for ii = 1 to len(targetStr)
if not between(ASC(substr(targetStr, ii, 1)), 20, 127)
return substr(targetStr, ii+1)
endif
endfor
>
> Bill
>
>
>> Actually there will be no non-ascii characters.
>> A string is a list of bytes, ascii is just a way of interpreting them,
>> so if you decide the string is in ascii format, every character will be
>> an ascii character.
>
>
>
>
_______________________________________________
Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com
Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox
OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech
Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox
This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the
author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added
to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
