>>Before I implement my own conversion functions, anyone know of any built in FP functions for going from binary to decimal and back?
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>why do you need that Bruce ?
>in VFP you can do binary (bit-wise) operations directly on decimals
>all the BIT functions (BITTEST,BITOR,BITLSHIFT etc.)

I'm working on a combinatorics problem where I actually need strings of base 2 digits to parse into matrices for analysis...