>>OK..here's what I need to do;
>>
>>Given a string, say "Bullwinkle The Moose", I need to do an XOR of the
>>first two characters, then take that result and do an XOR with it on the
>>next character, and so on until the last character....I've been told by
>my
>>client that the result will be ONE byte long???? HELP!!
>
>
>procedure XORStr
>LPARAMETER tcString
>local i,lnLength,lcRetVal,lnTemp
>lnLength=LEN(tcSting)
>*-* bitxor works with numbers so we will use the ASCII value oc each char
>lnTemp=ASC(LEFT(tcString,1))
>FOR i=2 to lnLength
> lnTemp=BitXOR(lnTemp,ASC(substr(tcString,i,1)))
>ENDFOR
>lcRetVal=chr(lnTemp)
>RETURN lcRetVal
>
>
>Arnon


Thanks..it helped...and it's working!! I haven't had to deal with this stuff for YEARS.

Craig