A buffer string / number question

Don M

In a buffer that consists of 80 characters I have 9 of those characters that represent a number. In this case it is a 9 digit number- 000000001.

How do I convert these 9 characters into an actual number that I can use to do math or comparisons with?

I copy the 9 characters from the large buffer to the smaller buffer with this:

  bytemove(@Buffer2, @Work_Buffer[64], 9)

I tried this to display the number- debug.dec(@buffer2) and debug.dec(buffer2) and neither produced the result of 000000001 or 1.

If I do an index repeat from 0 to 8 with debug.dec(@buffer2) I get 484848484848484849 which is the decimal representation of each ASCII character.

I just want to display either 000000001 (with a fixed number of digits method) or just 1 as a number and not an ASCII equivalent.

Thanks.

Don M

Come to think of it I probably need to make buffer2 into just a single long and then multiply and shift each byte to make up the whole number into the long. Is that correct?

Duane Degn

There are methods in the "Numbers" object in the Propeller Tool Library to convert numbers to and from ASCII characters.

Don M

I found the StrToDec method. That will work for me I think.