On 2016-09-12, at 09:33, Bill Ashton wrote:
> 
> How do I take a 1-byte character field containing a Hex value like x'C4'
> and turn it into a 2-byte character field containing C4 (x'C3F4')? I know
> how to turn it into a decimal value and Edit and all that, but I am
> blanking on this simple conversion.
>  
Unpack; Translate.

May need to pad a byte on the right so Unpack doesn't mess with the sign.

-- gil

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