On Apr 13, 2012, at 11:23 PM, Paddy Byers wrote:

> Or more simply:
> 
>   var buf = new Buffer(asciiString);
>   var sum = 0;
>   for(var i=0; i<buf.length; i++) {
>     sum -= buf[i];
>   }
>   sum = sum&0xff;
>   return sum.toString(16).toUpperCase();

Yeah, cool, that's the best !

function calcChecksum(asciiString) {
  var sum= 0;
  var i= asciiString.length;
  while (i--) sum-= asciiString.charCodeAt(i);
  return ((sum&= 0xff) < 16 ? '0' : '')+ sum.toString(16).toUpperCase();
}

calcChecksum('09sw13100')
-> "B8"
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