Re: Binary Characters to Decimal

[Raul A Jager <raul@xxxxxxxxxx>]

REXX does an excelent job in conversions.

Joel Fritz wrote:

> 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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