Ascii2Binary
The Ascii2Binary project consists of two complementary programs that convert between textual and binary representations of numbers. Ascii2Binary reads input consisting of textual representations of numbers separated by whitespace and produces as output the binary equivalents. It is useful for generating test data and linking programs that generate textual output to programs that require binary input. Binary2Ascii converts binary numbers to text. In both programs, the type and size/precision of the input or output is selected using command line flags.
| Tags | Utilities |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
| Implementation | C |
| Translations | English French |
Recent releases
- 13 Feb 2007 01:00
Changes: The information provided by the -s flag about the machine has been reformatted and now includes the extreme values for each type. Information about wchar_t has been added.
- 19 Dec 2006 03:21
Changes: The -s flag, which reports the numeric types available and their sizes, is now auto-configured so that types such as long double that are not available on all systems will be reported if they are.
- 19 Apr 2006 14:38
Changes: ascii2binary can now handle numbers with thousands separators. A new command line flag has been added that sets the locale for the LC_NUMERIC facet. In the case of ascii2binary, this determines what character will be interpreted as the thousands separator. In the case of binary2ascii, this controls thousands separation and decimal point. Among other things, this means that a pipeline of ascii2binary followed by binary2ascii can be used to convert numeric strings from one locale's format to that of another. Flags have been added for suppressing thousands separation and zero-padding.
- 11 Mar 2006 22:48
Changes: The -l option was added to add a linefeed after every 0x0A where the size is char, byte, short, or int; that is, the sizes where 0x0A might represent a character. Long options are now provided if getopt_long is available.
- 04 Mar 2006 07:32
Changes: Binary2ascii now optionally delimits the output as per the locale. A precision of 0, previously treated as an error, is now permitted.
