>Hi Dragan,
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>>Hex string is the right word. I'm seeing terms like "hex numbers" for months, and still can't believe that there are people who think that such numbers exist. Hex is just a way of writing the binary representation of byte contents.
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>Aha, thanks. "Hexadezimal" is the German word for the system that uses a base of 16 to represent numbers. I translated it literally, not always a good idea. *g*
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>Christof

Dragan's point is that the values are of xbase type numeric. Hexadecimal, octal, and decimal are xbase type character representations of these numerics (with binary representation in memory.)