Subj : "On the Fly" Hex-numb conversion ... ???
To   : Steve
From : Gerald Miller
Date : Thu Feb 28 2002 04:53 pm

From: Gerald.Miller@f512.n342.z1.cereal.mv.com (Gerald Miller)
Subject: "On the Fly" Hex-numb conversion ... ???

Hello Steve,

    Subject:  Re: "On the Fly" Hex-numb conversion ... ???
    On Saturday February 09 2002 at 00:56,
    Steve wrote to All:

 S> From: "E. S. (Steve) Fabian" <ESFabian@BellAtlantic.net>

 S> Gerald Miller wrote:

 GM>> and performing specific tasks based the converted address.

 S> Jasen.Betts@xspamp42.f531.n640.z3.fidonet.org wrote:

 JB>> I guess you'd be wanting to use iff or case for that...

 S> In fact, SWITCH is the better alternative - you have no limit of
 S> choices, unless you need values within specific ranges to be handled
 S> alike.

 S> To use SWITCH (or IF/IFF) it is not necessary to convert the numbers
 S> as long as they are always represented with the same number of leading
 S> 0s - they can be compared perfectly well as strings. While the string
 S> comparison is infinitesimally slower than the numeric comparison, the
 S> conversion will eat up the time difference, so I would just use the
 S> raw strings.

At this point, I'm using IFF...  I need to be able to trap a
range of UNKNOWN hex numbers:

      iff exist %INC%\"UnKnown_hex".* then
        .... ???
      elseiff exist %INC%\0000FE05.* then
        dir /hkmfo:d %INC%\????FE05.*>%INC%\INCOME.DAT
        set system=The First BBS
        set sysop=First Sysop
        set EXT=1st
      elseiff exist %INC%\0000FFF4.* then
        dir /hkmfo:d %INC%\????FFF4.*>%INC%\INCOME.DAT
        set system=The Second BBS
        set sysop=Second Sysop
        set EXT=2nd
      endiff

           Thanks ... Gerald
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