After Tom and Dick there isĪ CRLF (Carriage Return - Line Feed) and in the computer they are one long You may open a notepad document and seeīut the appearance of these is an illusion. Hex editor to see what was happening in the data. Macro was seeing the carriage return as the end of the line and I needed a In the street address to separate a suite number for instance. The problem was that Outlook allows users to put carriage returns I once was trying to copy a bunchĪddresses for a mailer from Outlook and every 10 or so lines I would get Why do we care? Because there are characters we can't see in something "a" thru "f" for a total of 16 characters. (base 10) representation so IBM extended the normal number set to include Problem is when you get higher you need 3 digits decimal This is a pain to write but if we tried to use the base 10 Like text and each byte represents a letter. This byte is what's used in computers to store stuff This is base 16 instead of the base 10 you and I areĬomfortable with. Right? Well take 8 bits and you make a byte which gives 256 (2^8) Well all this data we are working with is binary made of ones and zeros,
#HEX FIEND LINE DELIMITER FREE#
I use UltraEdit but there are many free alternatives. In ME there are debug tools that will allow one to see the variables as they are being manipulated but what about the data? For that one needs a good hex editor.
Powerful macros which did more of the processes invisibly in variables.Ī lot of this all happens behind the scenes invisible to the user and one will eventually need tools to lift the veil. The more advanced programming capabilities in ME and started making very But as I learned more and more and created more powerful macros Iīegan to realize the shortcomings in timing and lack of capability so I learned In the beginning I created simple macros by recording my keystrokes and mouse
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