Thank you, Nick. I had been wondering if there was a built-in
function I wasn't aware of so that I could save writing a forval
i=32/255 loop, but I guess that probably goes pretty fast anyway.
Andrew
--- In [email protected], "Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@d...> wrote:
> di as txt `"`c'"' as res %6.0f `j'
>
> removes one bug.
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@d...
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-statalist@h...
> > [mailto:owner-statalist@h...]On Behalf Of Nick Cox
> > Sent: 10 March 2005 21:01
> > To: statalist@h...
> > Subject: st: RE: Converting char to ascii
> >
> >
> > I am not aware of a built-in. User-written functions
> > are beyond my capabilities, but the following ado
> > is a zeroth stab. Not tested much at all.
> >
> > program ascii, rclass
> > version 8.2
> > local l = length(`"`0'"')
> > if `l' == 0 {
> > di as err "nothing to do"
> > exit 498
> > }
> >
> > forval i = 1/`l' {
> > local c = substr(`"`0'"',`i',1)
> > if `"`c'"' != " " {
> > local found 0
> > forval j = 32/255 {
> > if `"`c'"' == char(`j') {
> > di as txt "`c'" as res
> > %6.0f `j'
> > local ascii "`ascii'`j' "
> > local found 1
> > continue, break
> > }
> > }
> > if !`found' {
> > di as txt "`c' not known"
> > local ascii "`ascii'? "
> > }
> > }
> > }
> > return local ascii "`ascii'"
> > end
> >
> >
> >
> > Nick
> > n.j.cox@d...
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-statalist@h...
> > > [mailto:owner-statalist@h...]On Behalf Of
> > > Andrew Felton
> > > Sent: 10 March 2005 20:20
> > > To: statalist@h...
> > > Subject: st: Converting char to ascii
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Is there an inverse of the char() function? So that I
> > > could get ascii("a") = 97? -findit ascii- and a web
> > > search didn't seem to turn up anything. Thank you,
> > >
> > > Andrew Felton
> > > *
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> > >
> >
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> >
>
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