See code below. You can easy adjust it to any size of integer. These are unsigned integer routines.

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procedure IntToSTR
lparameters pnValue
return chr(pnValue % 256) + ;
     chr(int(pnValue / 256) % 256) + ;
     chr(int(pnValue / 65536) % 256) + ;
     chr(int(pnValue / 16777216) % 256 )
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procedure STRToInt
lparameters pcValue
return asc(left(pcValue,1)) + ;
     asc(substr(pcValue,2,1))*256 + ;
     asc(substr(pcValue,3,1))*65536 + ;
     asc(substr(pcValue,4,1))*16777216

>I'm trying to get the size of a image file using the bytes in the header. What I can't seem to negotiate is that fgets() translates the bytes it pulls from the file into their ASCII equivalent.
> I just want the the hex values because I need to swap an upper and lower byte (endianess?) before doing evaluate("0x" + hex_size). In C/C++ you can change the stream extraction type or cast the extracted values. Can Foxpro do something like this, so that hex values can be extracted from a file?
> Also, " alltrim(str(asc(fgets(file_handle,1)))) " doesn't work because when hex A-F appear, fgets doesn't convert them to a valid ASCII character and then " alltrim(str(asc( " won't work correctly. Thanks in advance.
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> -Josh