https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/variable-type-conversion/m-p/960440#M21718 Look in the help file and/or manual under "internal read" statement for converting character to binary representation. It is straightforward. <BR /> <BR />Tom Sat, 28 Jul 2001 23:06:31 GMT Intel_C_Intel 2001-07-28T23:06:31Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/variable-type-conversion/m-p/960439#M21717 I have read in data from an external file into a string variable. I have parsed out the fields in the string variable that are integers that I want to use in computations. But how do I get from 1999 as a substring to 1999 as an integer that I can use in computations? Sat, 28 Jul 2001 14:06:42 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/variable-type-conversion/m-p/960439#M21717 Intel_C_Intel 2001-07-28T14:06:42Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/variable-type-conversion/m-p/960440#M21718 Look in the help file and/or manual under "internal read" statement for converting character to binary representation. It is straightforward. <BR /> <BR />Tom Sat, 28 Jul 2001 23:06:31 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/variable-type-conversion/m-p/960440#M21718 Intel_C_Intel 2001-07-28T23:06:31Z