Leading Zeros in Binary

[Camm29]

Perfect , Thanks

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From: "Alex Tweedly" <alex at tweedly.net>
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Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 9:03 PM
Subject: Re: Leading Zeros in Binary


> 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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