Odd Behavior -64

[Jeffrey Ferreira]

I'm not sure what category to even put this under.
we have an an array that contains data like this:

key_pair$[1]="order_number$"+$01$+"123456"
we do
read data from key_pair$,sep=$01$ to variable$,value$

after that we do a via to assign value to variable...
here is the weird thing:
every now and then we will get one of the characters in order_number$ will be like -64 in terms of ascii value

so the _ is asc 95
we will get the asc 31 character instead

sometimes the R asc 82 will be asc 18

has anyone ever had anything at all like this happen?

thanks jeff

[James Zukowski]

Presuming you have confirmed the source of the transmission sent it properly...

There is a phenomenon that is pretty rare earthside, but seems to happen more commonly outside the atmosphere: cosmic ray bit-flipping. The 64 value change suggests that, as it's just a single bit in the byte. If it happens consistently at the same character, that might also suggest a memory error or failure of some sort.

Not sure what you're referring to with "the R asc 54 will be asc 12", as "R" is ascii 82.

[Jeffrey Ferreira]

i'm sorry James you are right...i was getting the asc mixed up with the hex...lets just disregard this post....i'm just going to trap for it with an error branch for now.