>Thank you my friend, your last idea do you think will work? i'm needing to convert numbers like 6500, 9600, 9450, etc. to their respective chr() string, would be possible to create a function to allow that?

Sure, you could convert (for example) to double-byte strings - but you won't be able to visualize these normally in Visual FoxPro. A simple command like ? lcMyText will show every byte as a separate character. You may have similar problems if you show the data in a TextBox.

It might be usable, though, if you just need to import, store, and export some data.

In any case, you would have to figure out how the data is stored - or at least, what format is used.

strconv() might help with the conversions; you will have to do some additional research on that topic. I see that conversions from "double-byte" to "unicode" are supported - whatever that means!

Let's assume that in a double-byte character, the first byte for each character is the high-order byte, and the second, the low-order. That is, the number is calculated as first_byte * 256 + second_byte. Please note that for your purposes, you have to verify this assumption; for example, I believe that what I explain is the "big-endian" convention, whereas some systems use the "little-endian" convention - with the high-order value in the second byte! So please check your requirements - how the data is to be stored!

Anyway, assuming the big-endian convention, you can get two bytes as follows:

lcByte1Value = number % 256
lcByte2Value = int(number / 256)
lcDoubleByteString = chr(lcByte1Value) + chr(lcByte2Value)
* Or simply:
lcDoubleByteString = chr(number % 256) + chr(int(number / 256))

I would combine this into a single statement and use less variables (as in the last line of the above sample code); I included the detailed version for clarity.


(A comment, not relevant for this discussion: Big-endians and Little-endians were two groups, in Lilliput, who had bitter fights over the question whether an egg should be opened from the big end, or from the little end.)