Reading illegal characters

[neufelni]

For my final project for compsci class, I am trying to make a media player. I am currently trying to get the track information from the mp3 files id3 tags, but when I read in a line of the file, Turing tells me there is an illegal character in the string. Is there anyway I can get Turing to ignore these characters, or deal with this problem in any way? As far as I know, Turing doesn't have any support for Exceptions/Error Handling.

[DIIST]

Use "read" command, and read a sequence of bytes as opposed to "getting" the whole line from the file. Reason is some characters are used to represent the uninitialized state of a variable. Displaying these characters will cause an error.

Its interesting that you are trying to read a mp3 file. How are you going about decompressing it. If i remember right, you need to know Huff encoding which involves creating a balanced structured tree, not something learn in your average high school class Plus if i remembered right you need a bit of knowledge on second year university calculus and the Fourier series.
Seems to be a tight project good luck.