[JaxPM] RE: Stupid questions ... ?

[RINKER, ROBERT E]

On the jacksonville-pm-list; Jax.PM'er "RINKER, ROBERT E" <rrinker at exchange.fccj.org> wrote -

 
been there, done that. I call it ASCII, or
EBCDIC, or even UNICODE. Bsides, when you
talk about computer data, there are ONLY numbers
(and only 2 of them at that!)

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Jones
To: rrinker at fccj.org; jtrifile at fccj.org
Cc: jacksonville-pm-list at happyfunball.pm.org
Sent: 4/30/00 12:48 PM
Subject: FW: Stupid questions ... ?

Hi All  :]

Let me spring this on you programmers (and NON-Programmers alike :)
Pls forward your thoughts about this; I would be most interested.

Thx!  -Sneex-  :]
- FCCJ * 501 W State St * Jacksonville, Fl 32202 * 904/632-3089 -

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> From: Bill Jones <bill at fccj.org>
> Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 12:41:20 -0400
> Subject: Stupid questions ... ?
> 
> (Or - Are there ANY stupid questions?!?)
> 
> Hi,  Would you consider this a stupid question?
> 
> Someone asked me:
> "How can I convert Letters to Numbers?"
> 
> I said "Why would you want to?"
> 
> They said "Can it be done?"
> 
> I said:  Yes ...
> 
> $_ = "This converts Letters 2 Numbers.";
> $_ =~ s/\G(\s*)(\S+\s*)/{
> foreach $chr ((split('',$2))) {
> print $chr . ' is ' . (ord(uc($chr)) - 64) . "\n";
> } }/ge;
> print;
> 
> Here is the output:
> T is 20
> h is 8
> i is 9
> s is 19
> is -32
> c is 3
> o is 15
> n is 14
> v is 22
> e is 5
> r is 18
> t is 20
> s is 19
> is -32
> L is 12
> e is 5
> t is 20
> t is 20
> e is 5
> r is 18
> s is 19
> is -32
> 2 is -14
> is -32
> N is 14
> u is 21
> m is 13
> b is 2
> e is 5
> r is 18
> s is 19
> . is -18
> 
> 
> But, again "Why?"
> 
> What do you think about this?  I think I am glad I am not alone --
> I cannot think of any good reason to convert letters to numbers...
> 
> ???
> -Sneex-  :]
> - FCCJ * 501 W State St * Jacksonville, Fl 32202 * 904/632-3089 -

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