Translation table example

 BBS: Inland Empire Archive
Date: 05-26-92 (11:27)             Number: 179
From: CORIDON HENSHAW              Refer#: NONE
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Subj: Translation table example      Conf: (2) Quik_Bas
For anyone who would like a translation table example, I've
got a compleat one, here it is:

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DEFINT A-Z

COLOR 14, 1
CLS
RESTORE
DIM CharTable(255) AS STRING * 3

FOR X = 65 TO 116 + 6
        READ CharTable(X)
NEXT

LINE INPUT "Enter Source File: ", Source$
LINE INPUT "Enter Target File: ", Target$

OPEN Source$ FOR BINARY ACCESS READ LOCK WRITE AS #1
OPEN Target$ FOR BINARY ACCESS WRITE LOCK READ AS #2

Length@ = LOF(1)
Start@ = TIMER

CLS
PRINT "Char number:         of:         InChar:   OutChar:"
LOCATE 1, 25
PRINT Length@;
FOR Total@ = 1 TO LOF(1)
        SEEK 1, Total@
        InChar$ = INPUT$(1, 1)
        IF ASC(InChar$) < 65 OR ASC(InChar$) > 122 THEN
                OutChar$ = InChar$
        ELSE
                OutChar$ = RTRIM$(LTRIM$(CharTable(ASC(InChar$))))
        END IF
        LOCATE 1, 13
        PRINT Total@;
        LOCATE 1, 42
        PRINT InChar$
        LOCATE 1, 53
        PRINT OutChar$ + "  "

        PUT #2, , OutChar$
        IF INKEY$ = "q" OR INKEY$ = "Q" THEN EXIT FOR
NEXT
PRINT "Done - took "; RTRIM$(LTRIM$(STR$(TIMER - Start@))); " Seconds"
CLOSE

DATA Ž,á,€,D,î,F,G,ô,­,õ,K,À,M,¥,,P,Q,R,$,Ñ,š,V,W,X,Y,Z
DATA [,\,],^,_,`
DATA ƒ,b,›,d,‰,f,g,ÿ,‹,j,k,³,m,¤,è,p,q,r,s,Â,u,v,w,x,æ,z
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>DO NOT REMOVE THE UPPER ORDER
>>>>>>>>>>ASCII!<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< I've only done this to change A-
>>>>>>>>>>z, but it's easy to modify to handle all 255 chars.

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