>>I need to convert a binary number to Hex, and vice-versa. It's been a long time since I've done this. Does anyone have some code that will do this for me?
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>>The binary number will look something like: 1100001111010001 (It will be as much as 16 digits)
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>>Craig
>
>Hi Craig,
>
>I'd suggest a two step approach, the first being to convert the binary string to an integer, then covert the integer to hex. I recently saw a routine to do the latter conversion, so here's the first part:
>
>FUNCTION BStr2Int
>
>LPARAMETER pc_bstr
>
>LOCAL lnresult, lni, lnj, lnlast
>lnlast = LEN(pc_bstr)
>lnj = -1
>lnresult = 0
>FOR lni = lnlast TO 1 STEP -1
> lnj = lnj + 1
> lnresult = lnresult + (VAL(SUBSTR(pc_bstr, lni, 1)) * (2 ^ lnj))
>NEXT
>RETURN lnresult
>
>Regards,
>
>George


Thanks George, I'll try it out. What I'm needing to do is transmit data to a remote server program. The remote program can accept optional fields i the middle of the string. The first field to send is a hex representation of the binary on/off (yes/no) of which fields are sent. For example, if field 5 is sent, then the 5th position in the binary number is set, etc.

Craig