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Posted: **Sat Mar 05, 2011 6:38 pm**

I am playing with a binary file and copied the following line from one of the tutorials:

put byte tCount of theBinaryData into theByte  --where is byte defined, dictionary search does not find it ?

and also

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repeat for each byte theByte in theBinaryData
    -- process theByte here (but don't modify directly)
end repeat

Where in the documentation is the word byte documented and are there other useful commands such as bit?

Simon

Posted: **Sat Mar 05, 2011 6:58 pm**

It's not a command, but a chunk expression. Currently it's a synonym for "character", but I think that is supposed to change when unicode support is improved.

Bit does not exist.

Posted: **Sat Mar 05, 2011 7:02 pm**

Currently it's a synonym for "character"

I have to ask - how do you know that?

Posted: **Sat Mar 05, 2011 7:22 pm**

It was in one of the release notes. It's completely undocumented otherwise

Posted: **Sat Mar 05, 2011 8:45 pm**

BvG wrote:It was in one of the release notes. It's completely undocumented otherwise

Noted as a documentation bug:
http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=2824

Thanks for mentioning that. It really should be there.

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