Ascii2Binary 2.11 review

Ascii2Binary project consists of two complementary programs that convert between textual and binary representations of numbers

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 85K Developer: Bill Poser

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Ascii2Binary project consists of two complementary programs that convert between textual and binary representations of numbers. Ascii2Binary reads input consisting of textual representations of numbers separated by whitespace and produces as output the binary equivalents.

Ascii2Binary program is useful for generating test data and linking programs that generate textual output to programs that require binary input. Binary2Ascii converts binary numbers to text. In both programs, the type and size/precision of the input or output is selected using command line flags.

What's New in This Release:
ascii2binary can now handle numbers with thousands separators.
A new command line flag has been added that sets the locale for the LC_NUMERIC facet.
In the case of ascii2binary, this determines what character will be interpreted as the thousands separator.
In the case of binary2ascii, this controls thousands separation and decimal point.
Among other things, this means that a pipeline of ascii2binary followed by binary2ascii can be used to convert numeric strings from one locale's format to that of another.
Flags have been added for suppressing thousands separation and zero-padding.