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buddha_d
Pyrite | Level 9

Does anyone know what kind of date format is this? 

 

index(issued_date,'F8'x) ^= 0        or

index(issued_date,'E4'x) ^= 0 

 

Thanks in advance 

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Reeza
Super User

It's a text string that someone is checking for those sets of characters are found, I believe F8 and E4 are ascii characters.

See the values here:

https://www.danshort.com/ASCIImap/indexhex.htm

 

 

 

 

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Reeza
Super User

It's not a date.

buddha_d
Pyrite | Level 9

Do you have any idea what it is please? 

Reeza
Super User

It's a text string that someone is checking for those sets of characters are found, I believe F8 and E4 are ascii characters.

See the values here:

https://www.danshort.com/ASCIImap/indexhex.htm

 

 

 

 

buddha_d
Pyrite | Level 9

Amazing Raza, Thanks for quick reply. 

buddha_d
Pyrite | Level 9

sorry for typo. Reeza

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