RE: Binary Characters to Decimal

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For binary to decimal, the brute force way is to load an array with powers
of two and match it to the characters in the binary number. This is one case
where zero based arrays would be handy.  For the other way, (I haven't tried
it) you might be able to load the decimal number into an integer and examine
the bits in the integer.  There's also the brute force way of repeated
division by 2 where you use the remainders as the binary digits.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Feador, Jerry [mailto:JFeador@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 3:04 PM
> To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
> Subject: Binary Characters to Decimal
> 
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
>       I've been tasked with converting a character representation of a
> binary number to it's decimal equivalent and vice versa. For 
> example I have
> a series of nine characters '001011101' and I'm suppose to 
> get the AS/400 to
> come up with 93. Or I have the decimal number 321 and I need to get to
> '101000001'
> 
>       I've checked the archives and all past information 
> deals with the
> conversion of a true binary number to decimal, not this character
> representation of one....
> 
>       Is it possible to just move this string into a binary 
> field and then
> to a regular numeric field?
> 
>       Help...
> 
>       Thanks,
>               
> 
> Jerry L. Feador
> Sr. Programmer/Analyst
> Kia Motors America, Inc.
> (949) 595-5810
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