Assignment of Binary strings

[Jim Hayes]

I want to set BYTE variables to certain binary values.

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DIM Switches AS BYTE

Switches = b'01110111'
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I was just writing my code and could not find this in the ref
books. Is this valid? If not, what is the best way. It makes
my code easy to read if I can use binary rather than a character.

Thanks,
TurboBoy

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[Mike Burns]

Prefix the number by the radix (&B for binary .. &H for hexadecimal
It should be under Character Set in the DOS help file

Switches = &b01110111

Mike


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[Lance Edmonds]

Don't forget Octal too:

PRINT &10, &O10, &q10 ' 10 Octal = 8 Decimal

Oh, and adding a leading zero will force an unsigned evaluation...

PRINT &HFFFF, &H0FFFF, &HFFFF??

..Produces:

-1             65535         65535

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[Jim Hayes]

Thanks much !!! ......

TurboBoy

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