>If I have a string created as follows...
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>x=CHR(255)+CHR(85)+CHR(0)+CHR(16)+CHR(0)+CHR(0)
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>What is the fastest way to retrieve a specified byte as an integer?
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>bytenum=2
>? asc(substr(x,bytenum,1))
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>...is all I could think of.
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>FYI - This is a value returned from an api call. In vb I could use a struct but as far as I know vfp has nothing like that.

See all the difernt BITxxx-functions in help, in this case you can use BITTEST()

Update, I mesread BYTE as BIT. For bytes the substr() function is easiest, just as you showed.