>>>>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.)
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>>I'm working on a combinatorics problem where I actually need strings of base 2 digits to parse into matrices for analysis...
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>I have such code for FPD2.0 - I'll dig it up -send me a private email..

Thanks, Arnon, looks like I'm all set now...