I have a program written in VB.NET and I have a textbox for the RFID tag (which is in ASCII format) and then convert it to a simple text format to be saved to my database. How can I convert ASCII to plain text to save to my database?
View 1 RepliesI want to explicitly inform my user that they are not allowed to use any characters from the extended ascii character set (128-255). When I try to create a string of these values using the following [Code] It outputs them fine, with the exception of a bunch of blanks in certain areas(I am assuming these characters are unprintable), but I noticed that when I hover over the value of sVal in the VS, the tooltip/quickview of the value is written nicely on one line. Any ideas how to remove characters that would appear to be blank spaces (unprintable) when outputting this list?
View 4 RepliesI am using StreamWriter and StreamReader in VB.NET 2008 Express to read and write ASCII text files. When I create the file and later read it, there is no problem, because I use System.Text.Encoding.UTF8 on both the write and read sides, so extended text is handled without problem. But sometimes, I have text files come in that are just straight 8 bit ASCII without the Unicode BOM... and they get a lot of junk when I try to read in anything with extended ASCII characters in it. It seems like the 8 bit extended characters are translated into multi-byte codes, and since they are filenames, of course, that doesn't work. Since the filenames just have straight 8 bit ASCII filenames. I have tried all sorts of encodings, and nothing seems to work.
The most common character that causes a problem is an "a" ... it is used in a lot of proper names. The funny thing is that sometimes is seems to workout... is there a way to read these types of text files? Some way to just tell StreamReader not to decode the text, just treat it as straight plain 8 bit ASCII text (with the old IBM PC mapping, I think). The one thing that works is to manually edit the input, replacing the extended characters with their un-accented partner and then renaming the files to match the new spelling. Maybe I should just go to read them as byte input and breaking the lines apart in my code.
I'm working on decoding a NMEA sentence that is a compressed 8-bit string. I'm having a very hard time of wrapping my head around the bit manipulation needed to convert this string. If someone could get me started with this it would be great.
Here is the incomming string:
!AIVDM,1,1,,A,14eG;o@034o8sd<L9i:a;WF>062D,0*7D
and here is the expected output:
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reading special characters within my VB code. ASCII code Char(34) = " works fine but Char(60) = < and Char(62) = > are not being read.
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node.FirstChild.InnerText = Chr(60) & "httpRuntime executionTimeout=" & Chr(34) & "999999" & Chr(34) & " maxRequestLength=" & Chr(34) & "2097151" & Chr(34) & "/" & Chr(62)
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So I have an ASP.Net (vb.net) application. It has a textbox and the user is pasting text from Microsoft Word into it. So things like the long dash (charcode 150) are coming through as input. Other examples would be the smart quotes or accented characters. In my app I'm encoding them in xml and passing that to the database as an xml parameter to a sql stored procedure. It gets inserted in the database just as the user entered it.
The problem is the app that reads this data doesn't like these characters. So I need to translate them into the lower ascii (7bit I think) character set. How do I do that? How do I determine what encoding they are in so I can do something like the following. And would just requesting the ASCII equivalent translate them intelligently or do I have to write some code for that?
Also maybe it might be easier to solve this problem in the web page to begin with. When you copy the selection of characters from Word it puts several formats in the clipboard. The straight text one is the one I want. Is there a way to have the html textbox get that text when the user pastes into it? Do I have to set the encoding of the web page somehow?
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I have a program, that allows writers to save there quotes. The quotes are saved in a xml file. Everything works as it should but when I load a saved quote it still comes up in xml format. I need to load a saved quote in a plain text format and I also want to be able to give the output file print functionality. I was thinking of making the output file a html file which opens up in a web browser, this of course already has print functionality, is this at all possible.
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I am trying to mimic an encryption application. The application I am mimicking does a simple calculation where it takes the key and the plain text characters 7 bit ascii code and xor's them together. If the two spots in the code are = then it returns a 0 if it is ~ then it returns a 1. I have tried several code snippets for xor and none of them produce the results I want. I have only taken a couple programming classes so I get lost easy. This is what I have so far. My goal is to decrypt something encrypted by the program I am replicating using a password generator to come up with the key.I already have the binary for the encrypted text from the program I am copying. So I need to convert the key into the matching binary format. I used this snippet for that. [code] When I run this as is I get a much longer result than I should. If I use an "a" as my key and "00000000" as my cipher bi the result is "0011000000110000001100000011000000110000001100000011000000110000" when it should be "01100001".
View 14 ReplieslswScriptreader =
New System.IO.StreamReader("test.txt", System.Text.Encoding.Default)
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Hex(D1) is my column Terminator and need to replace it with ",".
I am currently writing a program with Visual Basic 2005 to talk back and forth to an external machine over UDP/IP. I recently had some trouble with it which I got help for today. I need to send the information to the machine using ASCII. I had it figured out so I could send HEX numbers 20 through 7F to the machine. The problem I had and got help for was writing the HEX numbers 0-19 to the machine. The help I recieved said that instead of writing the actual HEX number into the machine, "70" for example, I should write Chr(112). This allowed me to send numbers like HEX 01 by simply writing Chr(1).
My new problem is that I need to write the HEX numbers 90, 91, 96, and 97 to the machine. Every time I try and send these numbers my computer sends out a weird number. For example, I try to send HEX 90 as Chr(144) and it ends up coming up as HEX 3F on the opposite end. After looking up the ASCII table online I found that Chr(144) is an Extended ASCII code.
how i can convert from Hexadecimal to Ascii ? like this ez : a hex text "6d 65 68 64 69 33" will became a ascii "mehdi3"
View 2 RepliesI'm Alan and I'm writing a little program (beginner), but I'm stuck and I can't get any further. So I hope one of you guys can help me solve following problem.Let me explain what I'm making, so it can give you all a better perspective.
For a this project I'm receiving data via the RS232 communication port. So basically I receive bytes. These bytes are converted to a string. So for example I receive this:"BAA" this is good because I can get the correct decimal value for "B"(66) and "A"(65) using the command asc("A") in .NET.but sometimes I receive a character that exceeds the 0-127 limit for example ""(128) (please see [URL]..But now when I try to get the decimal value of "" I get 63 instead of 128. I searched the Internet and forums for an answer but I didn't find one that fits my problem.
So if it's possible, can one of you code experts explain me how to fix this problem ? It would help me a lot. I hope I described my problem clearly, but if there are some questions,
I have made an application in VB 6.0.In this application ,i am connecting one controller through serial port to laptop.I have used MSOMM control for this purpose.Controller is sending data as a string .On VB 6.0 applicaton in laptop ,i am getting data displayed in one text boxall in ASCII code/characters.Total chatacters in string are 61.My problem is this that all 61 characters are comming in one text box.I want thateach character should come in seperate text box so that i can be able to display them individually,i.e. 61 characters and 61 text boxes.
View 2 RepliesI have a Form with 4 Text Boxes, 1 label and one button. What I need to do is: Make all the text boxes and label only except Hexadecimal inputs.when I press Button1
Label1 = TextBox1 AND TextBox2 ^ TextBox3 MOD TextBox4
Once again every all the numbers are in Hexadecimal format.
So basically, I have this RSS feed in hand. I converted the RSS into XmlDocument by the following:
Public Function GroveHallFromRss() As String
Dim webClient As System.Net.WebClient = New System.Net.WebClient()
Dim ourUrl As String = "http://abc.123.org/RSSSyndicator.aspx?type=N&
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So I'm wondering how could I display the converted RSS as any other XML file with the nodes styled. (but not rendered and displayed by browser as RSS, but only styled XML)
what would be the optimum code in VB2010 that check a file to determine:
1) is it a text file, and
2) if it is a text file, does it contain any non-ASCII characters
Note that LF, CR, and EOF would be expected, and should not be flagged. I can think of 3 - 4 ways to do it, but there may be a 'best' way in terms of simplicity and speed.
how can i replace another hex value at the place that i marked with red colour using VB.NET?
example: i gonna change that '23' into '24'.. i'm just newbie about hex in VB.NET
I have a database that is giving me mac addresses as strings. What I need to do is to convert this string to a decimal value, increase it by 1 and convert it back to it's hexadecimal value. I'm familiar with c# but I have to do this in vbscript.
View 3 RepliesI have a hexadecimal value
07A5953EE7592CE8871EE287F9C0A5FBC2BB43695589D95E76A4A9D37019C8
Which I want to convert to a byte array. Is there a built in function in .NET 3.5 that will get the job done or will I need to write a function to loop through each pair in the string and convert it to its 8-bit integer equivalent?
This program, it reads in a file, and displays it in hexadecimal, like using a hex editor. It then goes to compare the strings and whatnot, and display certain values. During the program, there is a time where I need to display a set of offsets as decimal because that is the way that it is shown regularly.
Taking the two specific offsets and displaying them in hex ends up giving me something like "3039" or "000A", which should respectively convert to 12345 or 00010. This "ID" that I am converting, can be 00000 to 65535, which in hex is 0000 to FFFF. The current method I was given only works if the value is less than 512 or something like that.
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I have a string of characters, but I would like to have a string of hexdecimal characters where the hexadecimal characters are converted by turning the original characters into integers and then those integers into hexadecimal characters. How do I do that?
View 3 Repliesi am working with serial communication in vb.i need to know how to get &h1 to be &ho1 to represent the byte o1 in hex or 0000 0001 in binary.i cant remeber how to parse the byte and represent it with two characters instead of one.
View 8 RepliesI would like to covert a 4 digit hexadecimal code point to UTF8.
For example:
4e00 to 一
Dim s1 As String = Char.ConvertFromUtf32(&H28E02)
I don't think they are built for my 4 digit code though.
I have been working on creating a carving tool to extract data on an image file.So am able to get the data present in the image in the form of hexadecimal.My problem is that i need to convert the hexadecimal back to its original format, that is for example get back a jpeg file back in its normal form.What am getting -> FF D8 FF EO.........FF D9 ( for a jpeg file in hex
View 6 RepliesI have encrypted a string to something like this:
1. Asak2$)kla1015QAXKFskfa332aSJ2(Ska@Skljcmcel3p.lq,aowpqaskla2@)Skx.:Pdm^),dfs;
what i want to is convert this string to something like this
2. JXK2LB AP2WXB S1P0XE ZXPA3H X1LAKW DOXPS3
both 1 & 2 the above strings are fictitious (i made them up to make my point clear)
I am trying to make a licensing system for my VB 2010 express application. (2) above will act as a serial key which can be derived from (1) which is an encrypted form of something unique of the client computer.
I will then confirm the (2) from the client.
The reply buffer is in ASCII value...but I need is HEX value.Is there any way that the reply buffer is in hex?
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Public Function read_write_string(ByVal devicehandle, ByVal command, ByVal commandlenght) As String
Dim inputReportBuffer(100) As Byte
unManagedBuffer = Marshal.AllocHGlobal(inputReportBuffer.Length)
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I have an app that I have been recoding in vb.net formerly written in VB6. In this app I use some ASCII control codes such as ACK NAK ENQ US RS EOT. The VB6 app uses the CHR() function with the proper ASCII codes to handle these but in recoding I would like to use something more meaningful and descriptive than CHR(4) for example.
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is there a way to convert characters to 7BIT ASCII with .NET?
View 3 RepliesI am writing a console application, which reads emails from different email boxes and processes through them. Emails are received from various automated systems. The email messages are logged and/or sent forward.
The problem is that some emails are encoded in UTF-8 and transfer-encoded in quoted-printable which messes up special characters (mainly ä,ö and å). I have not found any solution to convert them in readable format.
For example "ä" in quoted-printable is "=C3=A4". Using a normal conversion methods the result is "ä" (gibberish).
I shamelessly ripped this example conversion table from here: [URL]
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So how do I get the real codepoint from UTF-8 value? I'd rather not use any external libraries. Besides I've tried a couple already and they failed.
I found this function from the net. But I have a problem with the reply buffer. The reply buffer is in ASCII value...but I need is HEX value. Is there any way that the reply buffer is in hex?
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