posted April 20, 2005 11:55                      

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@array = qw(77 111 115 116 108 121 72 97 114 109 108 101 115 115);
print chr($_) foreach @array;
print "\n";

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posted April 20, 2005 12:01                      

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Originally posted by Unclear_Physicist:

If you are wanting to decipher the message, find an ASCII alphabet online (usually found in binary), convert to base 10 and then you'll have the number.

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posted April 20, 2005 12:38                         

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Originally posted by drunkennewfiemidget:

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Originally posted by Unclear_Physicist:

If you are wanting to decipher the message, find an ASCII alphabet online (usually found in binary), convert to base 10 and then you'll have the number.

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... I've never seen an ascii chart in binary in my life. Every single one I've seen is normal decimal. At WORST in hex.

Either way, nothing a little (insert language here) can't fix.

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I don't believe I've seen one in binary either, but definitely in hex & base 10. Hex is a much easier way to deal with ASCII, IMHO - makes it *very* easy to go to binary. The other day I was trying to recall off the top of my head what the base 10 for a letter was, and had to do the hex -> base 10 conversion in my head. I mean, really, A-Z=0x41-0x5A, and a-z is just A-Z plus 0x20. And naturally, you've got it exactly right about the easy way to change stuff.

Unclear Physicist - wow...that was...interesting...I have *no idea* why you brought binary into the equation, since it has /nothing/ to do with any normal interpretation of ASCII (most people/algoritms work in either: ASCII, base 10, or hex). It's educational, but well...unclear.

Of course, to be a little more pedantically correct, I'd point out that binary is all powers of 2 (otherwise your example looks like magic numbers), and so when reading from right to left, it's [0|1]*2^n, where n is the 0-based index from the rightmost position. Ergo, to use your example:
(1 * 2^7) + (0 * 2^6) + (0 * 2^5) + (1 * 2^4) + (0 * 2^3) + (0 x 2^2) + (1 * 2^1) + (1 * 2^0)


P.S. A friend of mine once showed me this site:
http://www.lookuptables.com/. I've got a deadtree copy of that in my briefcase, at the ready for whene're I'm bored, and want to find an obscure character that I have yet to memorize.

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posted April 20, 2005 13:13                         

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Originally posted by Zargof McBain:
Well it spells out "MostlyHarmless", whoever wrote it was slacking a bit, they could have at least put a 32 in there.

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posted April 20, 2005 13:26                      

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Originally posted by -ct-:

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Originally posted by Zargof McBain:
Well it spells out "MostlyHarmless", whoever wrote it was slacking a bit, they could have at least put a 32 in there.

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you mean 42

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No 32, that's ASCII for space, I'm not sure where a '*' would fit....


... P.S. I got it, I'm just feeling facetious.

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posted April 20, 2005 13:31                         

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Originally posted by -ct-:

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Originally posted by Zargof McBain:
Well it spells out "MostlyHarmless", whoever wrote it was slacking a bit, they could have at least put a 32 in there.

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you mean 42

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posted April 20, 2005 14:18                      

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Originally posted by -ct-:

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Originally posted by Zargof McBain:
Well it spells out "MostlyHarmless", whoever wrote it was slacking a bit, they could have at least put a 32 in there.

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you mean 42

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posted April 20, 2005 15:08                      

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#include <stdio.h>
#define BUFFSIZE 32
int main(){
   int code;
   do{
      printf("ASCII: ");
      scanf("%d", &code);
      code > 32 ? printf("Character: %c\n", (char)code): printf("Character: NOTPRINTABLE\n");
   } while (code > 0);
   return 0;
}

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posted April 21, 2005 08:19                      

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Originally posted by drunkennewfiemidget: ...I've never seen an ascii chart in binary in my life. Every single one I've seen is normal decimal. At WORST in hex

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posted April 21, 2005 08:21                      

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Originally posted by quantumfluff:

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Originally posted by drunkennewfiemidget: ...I've never seen an ascii chart in binary in my life. Every single one I've seen is normal decimal. At WORST in hex

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Ah youth. All the best ASCII charts are in binary. At least for those of us who remember this era

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