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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=949361513-03052001>Now
that sheds some light. Why are you trying to search binary files? Use
notepad.exe and open a executable binary file and see what you get. Usually a
lot of unprintable characters and occasionally you will see readable text where
literals have been stored.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>Bob Filipiak (Contractor)<BR>MCP </FONT></P>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Carlos
[mailto:carlos@unica.cu]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 03, 2001 10:07
AM<BR><B>To:</B> javascript@LaTech.edu<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Javascript]
Conversions of variant type...better explanation...<BR><BR></DIV></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Well, sorry for my hurriness...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'll try to explain the problem again, according
to what you said to me, let's see...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm trying to perform a search in a directory,
this search is inside files, but there are text files and binary files, so
what did I do, I treated all the files as binary files and tried to read its
contents, but the problem is that when I use the ADODB.Stream.Read(numBytes)
function, it returns a variant type (that's what all references of ASP say)
and I thought that I could perform the search very well if I converted the
variant type to a string data type...but...the variant type doesn't seem to
appear "as is" in my Javascript's tutorial...so, my question is related to
that conversion, but maybe anyone owns a better way of doing this search, so I
accept it too...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm interested in this conversion, cause maybe
(if the conversion variant - string is possible) you can convert any variant
type to a byte or an integer.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I guess that, this is my real
problem...</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>