On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:09 AM, gdgqler <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> This is something I would like too. In my BOOT i have a procedure which
> prints "a" given a$, but the format of the fp number is QDOS. For example a$
> could be $0800040000000. Of course in QDOS there are no NANs.
>
> I'm pretty sure that my BOOT also has the reverse procedure, but either I
> never use it or I have not used it for along time.
>
> George
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Hmmm.

a$ = CONVERT$(number, from_base, to_base)

from_base and to_base could be eg: 2, 10, 16, FP (for floating point)

If the conversion was invalid, simply leave a$ unset or to an impossible
value. a$ could be commuted to a if the value was decimal - which would be
explicit to the programmer.

Dave
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