BCD Conversion in .NET?

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Stephen - 18 Jul 2007 18:20 GMT

Hello,

Is there a way in .NET to do a BCD conversion on a long binary string? Or am
I going to have to break this up piece by piece?

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Kevin Spencer - 19 Jul 2007 11:51 GMT

There is no built-in support for BCD in the platform.

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> Hello,
>
> Is there a way in .NET to do a BCD conversion on a long binary string? Or
> am I going to have to break this up piece by piece?

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Dick Grier - 19 Jul 2007 19:22 GMT

As Kevin says, you have to write the code. However, it will be
straight-forward. Natually, the actual implementation depends on what "long
binary string" means. If this is actual binary, the code will be not
resemble -- closely, the code that would be used to convert an ASCII coded
hex string.

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Stephen - 19 Jul 2007 23:39 GMT

Thanks for the words folks. I figured it out.

> As Kevin says, you have to write the code. However, it will be
> straight-forward. Natually, the actual implementation depends on what
> "long binary string" means. If this is actual binary, the code will be
> not resemble -- closely, the code that would be used to convert an ASCII
> coded hex string.

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