[ubamous3]

hi,

just like the space doesnt exist in unix, it becomes %20 or something like that in windows; does anyone know what %40 translates to?

[lynch]

Huh?

[bassetman]

%40 = Space40
Is that what you meant

[codejockey]

OK, here's my $0.02 worth (perhaps less ... )

The %20 is the equivalent of 0x20, which is the hex value for the space character in the ASCII character set (the decimal value is 32). So, %40 corresponds to 0x40 or decimal 64, which is the '@' character in the ASCII character set. The % notation is the convention used by HTML to identify characters.

Hope this helps.

[ubamous3]

codejockey,

thank u thank u thank u very very much!!! that's exactly the answer what i was looking for;i was looking in google for ascii stuff but i really didnt understand what they were saying at all so thanks for ur help!!

[codejockey]

You're welcome -- glad to be of help. Actually, ASCII can be pretty confusing, even without adding things like hex or decimal or octal representations of characters. And to make things even more confusing, there are other ways to represent characters, such as EBCDIC -- and that doesn't even consider the problem of non-English languages!

[bassetman]

CJ, glad you understood the question!

[ubamous3]

Originally posted by codejockey:
You're welcome -- glad to be of help. Actually, ASCII can be pretty confusing, even without adding things like hex or decimal or octal representations of characters. And to make things even more confusing, there are other ways to represent characters, such as EBCDIC -- and that doesn't even consider the problem of non-English languages!

pretty confusing? i think it's an understatement for people who don't have the technical background; at first, when i posed the question ; i didnt even know that it's ascii related; i just remembered that someone told me a while ago that in unix, when u copy the path of an ftp code, the space becomes %20 or something like that in windows, so when i see this %40, i thought may be it's a similar situation i.e. unix vs windows instead of an ascii issue

see, u technical whizzes take it for granted the vast knowledge you have acquired over the years and something that's so apparent to u would be so foreign to a newbie (i.e. me well, i have learned a lot in the last couple years so im semi newbie )

That's why i do very much appreciate the technical help i get from a couple of the techy boards that i belong to, this being 1 of them of course.

[bassetman]

Well, shucky darn and slop the chickens, I learned something new today too!

[lynch]

Oh...
Now I too,understand the Q
lynch