Leading Zeros in Binary

[Alex Tweedly]

Camm29 wrote:

>Help !!!! Please
>
>When using baseConvert ("00FFFFFF" , 16 , 2) 
>
>it returns 111111111111111111111111 
>
>This is correct but i wish to keep the leading zeros for bit manipulation
>
>so i need the result to be ,
>00000000111111111111111111111111
>
>  
>
You can't do it directly in baseconvert (AFAIK), but you can use 
"format" to add leading 0s

put format("%032s", baseconvert("00FFFFFF", 16, 2))
    gives
00000000111111111111111111111111

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