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ixCharWordToHexWord
Name
ixCharWordToHexWord
Synopsis
void ixCharWordToHexWord( UCharT *HexWord, UCharT *CharWord, size_t Length)
Arguments
HexWord: A string to hold the generated hex word.
CharWord: A pointer to a regular ASCII string.
Length: The length of the ASCII string
Returns
Nothing.
Description
ixCharWordToHexWord converts an ASCII string to hexadecimal form. HexWord must be a string that is large enough to hold the hexadecimal form of CharWord. That will be approximately twice the size of the string plus 2 bytes.
The hexadecimal form of a word is used by Onix for searching so that different character sets and encodings can be searched for. Further many users embed control characters in search terms to represent special properties for a word.
The hexadecimal form starts with a 0x followed by numbers in hexadecimal form representing each byte in the string.
Many people generate queries themselves and don't wish to use ixConvertQuery2 to convert their queries. ixCharToHexWord allows them to convert individual words. You may wish to do this if, for example, your words contain characters such as & or | which the parser recognizes as query operators.
See Also
Queries
ixHexToChar, ixUnicodeHexToChar, ixUnicodeCharToHex, ixProcessQuery