Re: Search/Replace Func Characters

[cld@xxxxxxxx (Carl Distefano)]

Reply to note from "Robert Holmgren"  Sat, 22
Feb 2003 09:36:55 -0500

> Porting ENCODE and DECODE to Xy3+ would be very very difficult.
> I wouldn't dream of attempting it. Xy3 lacks the requisite
> tools to do the job.

But Brian specifically said he uses v3.55! That's the release that
introduced parsing wildcards -- specifically "wild-X" -- the very
tool that enables analyzing any 3-byte character into its
constituent bytes (without knowing in advance what byte 2 is). In
fact, parsing 3-byters is appreciably easier in v3.55+ than it is in
v4+, because wild-X grabs a single byte (as opposed to the whole
character in 4). So I don't see why someone as motivated as Brian
shouldn't be able to make a go of it.

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Carl Distefano
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