I am trying write a function to convert a string value to a binary value and then another function to convert it back to string. I have looked into the BinaryWriter and BinaryReader but I can only find examples of using a FileStream.

Can anyone help.

Can you provide an example of what you want to do?

BinaryWriter/Reader are for dealing with binary type data, but I think you mean converting a string (of what?) to 010101001110001101010.

Peter
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Fuction strTObinary (ByVal str as String) as String
'''I want binary value of variable str. For instance 01010101010101
'''Then I want to cast that value to a string. For instance binaryVal = "0101010101"
end Fuction

Fuction binaryTOstr (ByVal binaryVal as string) as ??Binary Type???
'''take binaryVal and cast it to the binary type which I have no idea what that is
'''take the now true binary value and convert it to its actual string value.
'''For instance, 010101010101 to "This is my string"
end Fuction

Ok, I think I see what you are trying to do. To the best of my knowledge, there is no "Binary" type. I mean... technically all data types are binary in their raw form, after all that's what the processor is using. But I don't think there is really a binary data type. You could take a character, figure out its ascii code and convert that integer to a string containing 1s and 0s to present the "binary" representation of that character.

What is intent for these functions? Given that there is no binary basic data type there seems to be little you could do with this.

Peter
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