Thanks for the reassurance, Dan. It was actually your Topic test question 5 on Flow control that asked what 'd' - 'a' was that prompted me to ask the question. Obviously you don't have to know what the ascii value of 'd' or 'a' just that they are sequential and 'd' is three more than 'a'. I have not seen anything either in the objects.
Bani, Sorry to mislead you. I don't have any secret for Unicode. I only meant the relationship of Unicode, Hex to using the same codes 0-F.
For example here is a change to my code one line add's a hex value and one line adds a unicode.
Output is
0x1f + 1 = 32
\u001f + 1 = 32
[ July 30, 2002: Message edited by: Robert Oliver ]
[ July 30, 2002: Message edited by: Robert Oliver ]