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Convert to ascii

by c-level · in Torque Game Engine · 03/13/2007 (9:29 am) · 1 replies

I've got TGE sending serial data out to a device. It's cool, when it's done, we'll post.
It's anticipating ascii values, so I need to convert to that.

With this post...
http://www.garagegames.com/blogs/32/10202
...I see how to convert my numbers to ascii if the values aren't part of the 1st 32 characters.

I need to be able to send any number between 1 and 127. As ascii. How can I produce these values? (Yes, I'm new to any ascii dilemma).
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Torque Owner Mike Henry
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03/15/2007 (9:04 am)
I'm a little confused with the function in that link (shown at bottom).

Is the input to the function a string of numbers, so: "68 79 71" would return "DOG".

Or is the input just a plain ascii string, so: "DOG" would return "DOG.

It looks like the second one, which doesn't seem to do anything useful except to
remove values below 32 and above 129, which could be done with a simple IF statement.

If you want to keep those values, then
(a) don't use this function, just use the string as is.
(b) make a function with IF statements to suit your needs.
(c) modify this function by adding the first 32 characters to the %charTable, and remove the line V=V+32.

Personally, I would use his function and add an IF statement for each special character I needed.

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Condensed from Harold Brown, Apr 06, 06:
function chrValue(%chr){
%charTable = " !\"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\\]^_'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~\t\n\r";
%value = strpos(%charTable,%chr);
%value = %value + 32;
}