BYTE
The
BYTE function returns a result equal to
Expression
converted
to byte type. If
Expression
is a string, each string is converted to a byte vector of the same length as the string. Each element of the vector is the character code of the corresponding character in the string. The BYTE function can also be used to extract data from
Expression
and place it in a byte scalar or array without modification, if more than one parameter is present. See
Type Conversion Functions
for details.
Calling Sequence
Result = BYTE(
Expression[, Offset [, Dim
1
, ..., Dim
n
]]
)
Arguments
Expression
The expression to be converted to type byte.
Offset
The byte offset from the beginning of
Expression
. Specifying this argument allows fields of data extracted from
Expression
to be treated as byte data without conversion.
D
i
When extracting fields of data, the
D
i
arguments specify the dimensions of the result. The dimension parameters can be any scalar expression. Up to eight dimensions can be specified. If no dimension arguments are given, the result is taken to be scalar.
Example
If the variable A contains the floating-point value 10.0, it can be converted to byte type and saved in the variable B by entering:
B = BYTE(A)
