ASCII string to number

[labstew]

I have been searching through articles on this problem and its clear as mud.  My specific problem is that I have an "HEX" reading from an A2D converter on one of our products, when I read it back it is displayed as ascii values so I convert it to HEX by right clicking the indicators on screen.  This is great for some of the readings, but other readings I need to convert into a decimal number to do some calculations on.  When I try to use the "convert HEX string to number" function it does nt work, because the value although displayed as HEX is still an ascii character.  I tried to write to a local variable as HEX and then read from it, but it is still an ascii character when I read it.  I can t find any ascii conversion anywhere in labview, does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Andrew L 

[TCPlomp]

'String to byte array'  is your friend, it will convert your string into an array of U8's where every element is one character!

Ton

[johnsold]

Andrew,

Convert the string to a byte array (in the numeric conversions palette). If your numbers are larger than one byte (12 or 16-bit converter) then use the join numbers functions from the data manipulation palette.

Lynn

[labstew]

Thank you both, it worked like a charm.   I had tried to use the string to byte array but I did nt join the numbers.

Andrew

[TCPlomp]

You can do 16 bit numbers in one step, look at the code here.

But then typecast to an array of U16's.

Ton