Hi Taylor,

Thanks for the reply, but it did not work?


>>Hi Everybody,
>>
>>I would like to shift a number between 0-255 to the left 24 times. When I do the following for example:
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>>

? bitlshift(0xff, 24)

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>>I should get: 4278190080
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>>However, I get the following number instead:
>>-16777216
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>>How can I correct it?
>>
>>Thank you,
>>Ali
>
>That is the correct answer. VFP uses signed numbers.
>
>? TRANSFORM(-16777216,"@0") && 0xff000000