From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM
	autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,13bebe8869a9207e,start
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-07 08:30:42 PST
Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail
From: chrissy_brady1@yahoo.com (chrissy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Octal Conversion in VB
Date: 7 Sep 2003 08:30:39 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com/
Message-ID: <f8f1b420.0309070730.e42c6dd@posting.google.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 211.29.166.185
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Trace: posting.google.com 1062948641 13413 127.0.0.1 (7 Sep 2003 15:30:41
 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Sep 2003 15:30:41 GMT
Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42235
Date: 2003-09-07T15:30:41+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

I was playing around in VB trying to come up with a simple application
to convert entered strings of alphanumerics into octal numbers.

I took the approach of declaring a series of variables as integers,
and calling the library functions "Val" and "Str" to handle the data
conversions from the text box I was using to key in the alphanumerics
and to the text box I was assigning the resulting string.

I then wrote a series of expressions to assign values to each of the
declared variables, in sequence.

I then concatenated the resultant character string to produce the
number sequence.

Thus:  

Private Sub cmdConvert_Click()

Dim A, B, C, D as Integer

A = Val(txtDecimal.Text)
B = A Mod 8
C = A \ 8 Mod 8
D = A \ (8 ^ 2) 
txtOctal.Text  = Str(D) + Str (C) + Str (B)  

End Sub

This seemed to work, but the code looked ugly, and I'm not sure a
truth table would support the conversion to infinity. Am I right?

Is there a better and tidier way?


Hoping for some guidance


Chrissy