Re: length of strings

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Oh. That makes perfect sense. And I take it that the
conversion of a s/g from numeric to string is accomplished by doing an
> as you did below.


Thanks, Carl!




Reply to note from Harry Binswanger
 Sat, 15 Jan

2011 11:14:03 -0500


> This must have to do with the SX vs SV representation of

> strings that you wrote about recently, but it is confusing.
The

> length of this string turns out to be 5 not 3.


Right. VA| requires a string; you're feeding it a numeric value

("+1>" pokes a number into S/G 05).
Compare the results

here:


XPLeNCODE v2.0

b-gin [UNTITLED]

{<}SV04,115{>}{<}SX05,{<}PV04{>}+1{>}{<}SX05,{<}IS05{>}{>}{<}

SX06,{<}VA|05{>}{>}[BC_]{<}PV05{>} |
{<}PV06{>}{<}EI{>};*;[cr

|lf]

-nd

XPLeNCODE


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Carl Distefano

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Harry Binswanger
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