BINARY

16-bit signed integer (assigned functional return)

Passes the twos complement binary equivalent of the numeric string.

character array (required)

Passes the octal or signed-decimal number (in ASCII characters) to be converted. If the character string begins with a percent sign (%), it is treated as an octal value. If the character string begins with a dollar sign ($), it is treated as a hexadecimal value. In this case, the string must be less than 6 characters and only 0 through 9, a through f, and A through F are allowed. The maximum hex strings are $ffff and $7fff. If the character string begins with a plus sign, a minus sign, or a number, it is treated as a decimal value. Leading blanks are not allowed and are treated as illegal characters.

16-bit signed integer by value (required)

Passes the length (number of bytes) of the ASCII-coded value. If the value of length is 0, the intrinsic returns 0 to the calling process. When the value of length is negative, the intrinsic causes the process to abort.

Request granted. A 16-bit binary value is returned to the process.

Request denied. A word overflow, possibly resulting from too many characters (asciieqv number too large), occurred in the value returned.

Request denied. An illegal character was encountered in asciieqv. For example, the digits 8 or 9 were specified in an octal value.

DBINARY

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