>>>I see some characters in the VFP hex viewers, and to do manipulation on a file, I need to convert this to a string; e.g.: MyString = chr(0xFF) + chr(0x7F) + ...
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>>>I was wondering whether there was a less cumbersome way to express a hexadecimal dump as a string.
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>>It was a while ago (more than ten years), but PCTOOLS had a hex editor that was pretty good.
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>Actually, the hex viewer that comes with VFP was enough for my needs - to analyze the file format.
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>I am doing the actual data conversion with VFP (reading the file into a memory variable).
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>The question referred to simply converting a string, which the hex editor shows as a series of hex digits, into a "normal" string. For instance, in the hex editor I see:
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>414243
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>I would need the result: "ABC".
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>I can specify this as chr(0x41) + chr(0x42) + chr(0x43), but I was wondering whether there was any simpler method.

Thanks Hillmar. Now I understand. By the way, I looked at your city on Google Earth. How many folks live there?