bit char string...need help

[frank_tudor]

Hi I am trying to convert a bit char string to something useful.  Basically I have an activex tool that allows me acess to a serial port based scale.

I send a weight request command and it sends me this gibberish:

°®°° ìb ÇR

Thank I try to do a tostring() and get this:

\u00b0\u00ae\u00b0\u00b0, on line 1, column 21, is not a valid identifer name.

Hmm.. anyone have to deal with bitchar strings coming from serioal ports or know what i am dealing with here?

Thanks

Frank

[mack_]

Basically you need to access the string as a byte array - I think

there's a method getBytes() that you can apply to a string.

Mack