I still have to work my way through these notes... Fanx!

...but to clarify what I was talking about re:

$data: !CI=427 Lamp dim state=2 SCATS=0.!

What I wrote was a mistake...

What I meant to say was: I show a "C" character (ASCII decimal 67, 0x43) at the start of the '$data' list of characters, when in the @data array you'll see it's actually a "special" character (ASCII decimal 128, 0x80).

I simply wasn't sure if the "special" character would upset some display thing if I included that unusual character in my posting... tha's all.

"Sorry about that, Chief...

In reply to Re^2: Problems Getting the Template Correct when Using unpack() by ozboomer
in thread Problems Getting the Template Correct when Using unpack() by ozboomer

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