From: Karl E. Peterson on
GS formulated the question :
> Karl, I don't have any problems with parsing strings. The problem I did have
> was how to construct the HexString from the DecString since my client was
> inferring the conversion was the other way around.
<snip>
> No kidding! Doesn't help much either when the client doesn't know how to
> communicate the problem. IMO, they got me involved too early; they should
> done their homework fully before dragging me into it.

<groan>

Ah well. Life is full of learning opportunities, isn't it? <g>

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