code: function stoBA(s) {
      var a = new Array();
      for (var i = 0; i < s.length; i++) {
  	a[i] = s.charCodeAt(i);
      }
      return a;
  }
docs: ==== string / byte array ================================ 
  convert a string to an array of character codes
  @param {String} s
  @return {Array of Numbers}