Convert hexadecimal characters to ascii

2008-11-29 Thread Durand
Hi, I've got this weird problem where in some strings, parts of the string are in hexadecimal, or thats what I think they are. I'm not exactly sure...I get something like this: 's\x08 \x08Test!' from parsing a log file. From what I found on the internet, x08 is the backspace character but I'm

Re: Convert hexadecimal characters to ascii

2008-11-29 Thread Mensanator
On Nov 29, 2:39�pm, Durand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got this weird problem where in some strings, parts of the string are in hexadecimal, or thats what I think they are. I'm not exactly sure...I get something like this: 's\x08 \x08Test!' from parsing a log file. From what I found

Re: Convert hexadecimal characters to ascii

2008-11-29 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 20:39 +, Durand wrote: Hi, I've got this weird problem where in some strings, parts of the string are in hexadecimal, or thats what I think they are. I'm not exactly sure...I get something like this: 's\x08 \x08Test!' from parsing a log file. From what I found

Re: Convert hexadecimal characters to ascii

2008-11-29 Thread John Machin
On Nov 30, 7:39 am, Durand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got this weird problem where in some strings, parts of the string are in hexadecimal, or thats what I think they are. I'm not exactly sure...I get something like this: 's\x08 \x08Test!' from parsing a log file. From what I found

Re: Convert hexadecimal characters to ascii

2008-11-29 Thread Durand
Wow, I didn't expect so many responses! Thanks! I will have to try out all those solutions when I have access to my computer.. What I meant was that when the string was printed onto a text file, it showed lots of boxes that are usually associated with unknown characters...When I tried to work out