Convert ascii file to binary file in cvi

[Joncombat]

Is there a CVI function or a simple method to convert an ascii file to a binary file format?  Here is some simple data C4 7E.  I need to convert it to - ~.  Any suggestions?

[JGS]

I expect that you have to elaborate. I do not expect that you missed the obvious: use fopen as if it is a binary file. You have to use fread and fwrite (instead of fgets and fputs). But I expect that you have some different purpose. And then you have to specify more detailed what you want.

[Wolfgang]

One possibility is to open the ASCII file to read with fopen ("asciifilename", "r"); and to open the binary file for writing using fopen ("binaryfilename", "wb"); Also have a look at the functions fread (), fwrite, and fclose() in the ANSI C library.The idea would be to read the data as text file, and then write the data in binary format. You do not need to convert anything on your own.

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If your prefer, you can also use the functions ScanFile / FmtFile from the Formatting and I/O Library...