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Re: Access the 3rd and rest elements of a Byte() (byte array)?

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Mayayana,

>  I don't think it's possible with straight VBS because
> it's looking for a variant.

Yes, and no*.  But I am afraid I was a bit to quick with my reply, making 
assumptions I should not have.   "mid(...)" doesn't work.   JJ, my 
apologies.

* JJ mentioned that both "asc()" and "ascw()" work.  I just found that 
"wscript.echo" also works - though it will try to interpret each two bytes 
as a single wide-character symbol.  In my case  got 13 question-marks. 
Alternating the written chars with a bunch of "chr(0)"-s causes the "abc"... 
string to be displayed.

> It's datatype byte array. You can't convert it. You can't get to it
> as x(0). Because it's not a variant.

I agree that thats pretty-much it.

But you know, its a bit funny : I've written a few OCX objects with methods 
which do not accept variants at all (just DWORD integers / floats and 
BStrings), and I can use them in VBS without a problem.  IOW, VBS does a lot 
of conversion below the surface.  Just not here.

> Long story short, VBS is the wrong tool.

:-)  Straight-up VBS isn't really usable for much anything.  The very moment 
you want to actually /do/ something with it you need to load external 
objects.  Most often starting with the filesystem one.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

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Access the 3rd and rest elements of a Byte() (byte array)? JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> - 2022-03-08 06:24 +0700
  Re: Access the 3rd and rest elements of a Byte() (byte array)? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2022-03-08 11:22 +0100
    Re: Access the 3rd and rest elements of a Byte() (byte array)? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2022-03-08 08:07 -0500
      Re: Access the 3rd and rest elements of a Byte() (byte array)? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2022-03-08 21:15 +0100
        Re: Access the 3rd and rest elements of a Byte() (byte array)? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2022-03-08 16:57 -0500
        Re: Access the 3rd and rest elements of a Byte() (byte array)? JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> - 2022-03-09 10:58 +0700
          Re: Access the 3rd and rest elements of a Byte() (byte array)? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2022-03-09 10:39 +0100
      Re: Access the 3rd and rest elements of a Byte() (byte array)? Ulrich Möller <knobbi38@arcor.de> - 2022-03-11 11:23 +0100
        Re: Access the 3rd and rest elements of a Byte() (byte array)? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2022-03-11 13:14 +0100
        Re: Access the 3rd and rest elements of a Byte() (byte array)? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2022-03-11 09:12 -0500
          Re: Access the 3rd and rest elements of a Byte() (byte array)? Ulrich Möller <knobbi38@arcor.de> - 2022-03-11 18:41 +0100
            Re: Access the 3rd and rest elements of a Byte() (byte array)? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2022-03-11 15:58 -0500
        Re: Access the 3rd and rest elements of a Byte() (byte array)? JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> - 2022-03-12 06:24 +0700
          Re: Access the 3rd and rest elements of a Byte() (byte array)? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2022-03-11 19:30 -0500

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