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

I heard estimates approaching a million, but that may be hearsay. In any case, that would be "bigger Cochabamba", i.e., several municipalities that are so close together that you don't know when you are leaving one "city" and entering the next "city".