Formatting

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howto format a character to an ascii value?
howto format an integer to a binary?

could not find anything in the docs…

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format("%c", intvalue) will return a string with the byte value specified. This is commonly used to pass values to an i2c write function, for example.

Is that what you needed?

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thanks Hugo,
that’s my first question.
my second is something like format("%b", 10) =1010 (or “1010”)

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I don’t think there’s a built in formatter for binary. Here’s one way of doing it:

function binstring(val) { local str = ""; while(val) { str = ('0' + (val & 1)).tochar() + str; val = val >> 1; } return str; }

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Thanks philmy,

You saved me a lot of time, trying to find a solution like this…

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Another option that allows for varying bit widths but also display the value in2/4/6 or 8 hex digits:

function ShowBinary(value, width) { local m1 = "0x%02X: "; if ((width == 0) || (width > 32)) return (-1); local mask = (1 << (width - 1)); if (width > 24) m1 = "0x%08X: "; else { if (width > 16) m1 = "0x%06X: "; else { if (width > 8) m1 = "0x%04X: "; }} local m2 = format(m1, value); for (local pos = 0; pos < width; pos++) { m2 += format("%c",((value & mask) != 0) ? 0x31 : 0x30); mask = (mask >> 1); } return m2; }

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great!
Was trying to do the same. But I’m not able to do it this efficient.
Thanks ammaree!