[Tesser]

Here is actually a *working* example, but notice there are 2 commented out conditional statements. With them commented, it works. With them in it doesn't. This leads me to think it may in fact be a performance issue because when I run the whole item (not copied here) with them commented out, it still doesn't run. So these 2 lines can break the item, but removing them doesn't necessarily fix it...

With the conditionals commented, this code will interpret any binary bytes it finds in the CHAT_MSG_SAY channel.

Apologies for my self-taught, brute-force approach here - and thanks in advance for any time and tips you have!

(note there is one conditional - GHI_CountBuffs - that requires GHI..)

local word_table = {}
if not binbrewFrame then
    binbrewFrame = CreateFrame("Frame");
end
binbrewFrame:RegisterEvent("CHAT_MSG_SAY");




local binBrewFunc = function (self, event, ...)
    local message, sender, language, channelString, target, flags, unknown, channelNumber, channelName, unknown, counter = ...  
    local msgSearch = string.find(message, "[bB]inary");
    
    
    -- if GHI_CountBuffs("Binary") > 0 then
    -- if msgSearch ~= nil then
    local array2 = {}
    local array3 = {}
    for wurd in message:gmatch("%S+") do table.insert(array3, wurd) end 
    
    for k,v in pairs(array3) do
        
        local incr = 1
        local array4 = {}
        local tByte = ""
        local altr = ""
        local actual_word = ""
        
        for w in string.gmatch(v, ".") do  
            tByte = tByte .. w
            local sum = 0
            if incr%7==0 then
                
                array4[incr/7] = tByte
                local bin = string.reverse(array4[incr/7])
                for i = 1, string.len(bin) do
                    num = string.sub(bin, i,i) == "1" and 1 or 0
                    sum = sum + num * math.pow(2, i-1)
                    
                end
                tByte=""
                altr = string.char(sum)
                actual_word = actual_word .. altr
            end
            incr = incr + 1
        end
        word_table[k] = actual_word
    end   
    local sentence = "" 
    for i=1, #word_table, 1 do
        sentence = sentence .. word_table[i]
    end
    print(sentence)
    -- end
    -- end
end

binbrewFrame:SetScript("OnEvent", binBrewFunc);