What is ASCII Code and How could I decode it? Please explain in "normal" words.?

Question

I am solving a riddle and I need to find the Ascii code and decode it From what I understand the ASCII code would be written in numbers and it needs to be convertered to letters.... Would it look like this:
GALT : # 008000; GL : 1: DIV; #336699; VLC:663399: AH:CENTER ; BGC : FFFFFF ; LBGC : 336699; ALC : 0000FF; T : 000000; GFNT: 0000FF ; GIMP : 0000FF ; FORID :1; ">


and if so how do i figure out what this means?

Answer 1

ASCII is simply a way of assigning numeric values to keyboard characters. The original ASCII set consisted of 128 characters (7-bit) ("printable" character like "A" and "non-printable" characters such as [TAB]). It was later extended to 256 characters (8-bit) that included accented characters typically found in Western European languages.

Those codes appear to be hexdecimal (base 16, prefixed with #) where a single digit represents one of 16 possible values (0..9 + A..F). Two digits make up a byte (one character). To convert to base 10 (decimal), open Windows Calculator, switch to Scientific Calculator, set it to Hex, type in one of the letters, and switch it back to Decimal. This gives you then base 10 numeric equivalent (e.g. F=16, FF=255). You can then use this number to look up on an ASCII chart (web search "ASCII Chart") which character it is referring to. Some ASCII charts are printed in hex and decimal so you may be able to skip the decimal conversion altogether.

For example:

#336699 is really three bytes 33, 66, and 99 (in hex). Translating to decimal 33=51, 66=102 and 99=153. On the ASCII chart, 51="3", 102="f" and 153="Ö".

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

ASCII is a character encoding. To see something about ASCII see this document about character encoding: http://www.htmlquick.com/reference/character-encoding.html

That piece of text you've got there looks like some kind of Style Sheet. It certainly isn't CSS (Cascade Style Sheet) but I don't know exactly how other Style Sheets work. Style Sheets are used in HTML documents (not exclusively, but in this case seems to be) to define attributes. For example, you can set the color of the background of a table's cell to white (background-color: #FFFFFF).
If the attribute containing that code is something like:



(the attribute "style") then I'm right and it's style information. You can see about style sheets here: http://www.htmlquick.com/tutorials/css.html

I guess that this is the code for a text box of a web page wich content you need to retrieve. If the text is being already displayed when the page loads, then you can take it from the content of the "value" attribute (quoted text). If it's not, then you cannot pick it up.

If that text is in some other kind of code, then you should take it and ask another question.

Answer 3

That is not ASCII, perhaps some type of HTML?

ASCII - acode that represents letters, numerals, punctuation marks and control signals as seven bit groups. It is used as a standard code by the transmission of data. The values range from hex value 00 to hex value 7F.

Basically saying that ASCII is a coding system for computers, that stores every letter, number, and special character with a number (such as A = 1000, WHICH IS NOT THE RIGHT NUMBER JUST AN EXAMPLE!). The lowest value would be 00, and the highest would be 7F (this was based on a hexadecimal numbering system)

Answer 4

That doesn't look like ascii to me. Ascii is the way most computers store data. Traditional ascii is 7-bit (that is, it stores each letter as a number from 0 to 127), and there is also extended ascii, which uses the 8th bit. There is a table of the codes here: http://www.lookuptables.com/.

I don't see how this is ascii. If you know it is a computer code, I wonder if it could be unicode, since that is also a way of storing characters in a computer, but uses bigger numbers.

Answer 5

yeah, thats not ASCII... that looks like color coding (correct name?) ACII is bascially a way that computers, who only understand 1's and 0's, and turns them into characters that we use... like A,B,C,-,= that sort of stuff...

the color coding can be used in a program like Paint, to determine a color...

It looks like the color code your using is in Hexidecimal form, which basically uses letters and numbers, it'll count 0-9, then go to A,B,C,D,E,F... but simple programs like Paint, or any HTML reader can solve that problem....

the whole thing is HTML script, i bet it was kifed from a website... i don't know much about HTML, unfortunatly, but i do know that BGC means background color, and FFFFFF means black... so... you can just look up HTML color scripts and that'll help you also

hope this was useful and not too complicated ( =

Answer 6

Hey i'm here for the first time. I came across this question and I find the replies really valuable. I hope to give something back to the community and help others too.

Answer 7

That's an interesting question

Answer 8

Ya, you have plenty of answers willing to help, and I think I know what you are getting at, maybe you should re-pose the question