is there a way to convert decimal or hexadecimal string to bcd on labview 8.0 or 7.1??

[kukla]

i am trying to convert user input data to bcd data. is there a way to do this besides converting each individual data bit to binary?

[mikeporter]

How do you want the data represented in memory? Because the BCD code only takes 4 bits there are several options:

1. One byte per digit with the unused bits set to zero
2. One byte per digit with the unused bits set to ones (hardly anybody does this anymore)
   
3. Two digits stored in each byte

Mike...

[kukla]

I'd go with option 3 please

[GerdW]

Hi kukla,

have you tried the very easy formula bcd = 16* number2 + number1 ???
Number1&2 should ofcourse not exceed the range of 0 to 9, as you work here with decimal numbers...