String of binary to text

[programlad19]

Hi there,

I was wondering whether you could convert a string of 01110010010 (for example) into text, so if I entered 01111110 I would get ~.

Regards,

Christopher

[winterishere8]

If i understand you right, you want to convert a number to its ascii representation, right?

[winterishere8]

This should do it.

[winterishere8]

You can also see this. https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Converting-a-binary-string-to-a-number/m-p/33935

You'd use scan from string if you have a binary string.

[crossrulz]

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@programlad19 wrote:

so if I entered 01111110 I would get ~.

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How is that value being entered?  Is it a single byte with Binary radix/display?  A string of just 1s and 0s in ASCII?

Assuming a single byte, the use Build Array and Byte Array To String.

If the string of 1s and 0s in ASCII, then I would use Scan From String with "0b8" as the format to convert to a U8.  Then you just use the Build Array and Byte Array To String to get your character.

[programlad19]

Oh no I mean like an actual string. So it would be a string (pink) with 1s and 0s inside it. Not sure how you would convert that to a text string.

[winterishere8]

This is what you need.

[programlad19]

That only works for the first letter. So the way my system works is it takes in a bunch of binary values which no spaces in between for each character, so for example 0110100001100101011011000110110001101111001000000001010 would be the binary string which I want to convert to hello.

[winterishere8]

Whats the source of the data being streamed & size of each data packet? I am assuming its an unsigned 8-bit? You'd have to parse your data packet based on the packet size and then apply the VI that i shared in my previous post.

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