Help please ... convert byte to long

PaulF

Hi all,
i am having great difficulty with this little matter. I am reading a byte from a file. This byte needs to be converted to a long to allow further calculations. Is there a simple way to convert from byte to long?
Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

Paul

T Chap

You would have to have a variable initialized as a long to start with to receive the byte. The simplest is to take your byte, and make the long equal = byte.

longvar := bytevar

You can't 'convert' a byte to long if the byte is initialized as a byte. You could just use a long in the first place though, then it is already a long, no conversion needed.

PaulF

Thanks TChapman,
that works. It's been a very long day and \i must be getting tired.