Converting Ascii Data recieved form Channel O on PLC5

[Holmzy]

I am trying to take data recieved through Channel 0 on a PLC5
as an Ascii string then convert it to a decimal number in the PLC

The string is made up of a combiation of numbers and letters.


example: 123CFRES1E301234

after I recieve it I need to break it down into 5 parts

123C
FR
ES
1E30
1234

I have had some luck with the extracting into the separate
strings but have not had any luck converting to integer.

The parts that have a letter do not convert.

I am using Rslogics 5 and the PLC is a PLC5/40

 

[Ron Beaufort]

we need more details ...

please give us some examples to work with ...

123C = 1234
FR = 44
ES = 128
1E30 = 4321
1234 = 8888

or something along those lines ... now I'm reasonably sure that "FR" probably doesn't need to be converted into an integer (or does it?) ... but it would be very helpful if you could specify exactly what output you require for each of the chunks that DO need to be converted ... and will each of the chunks ALWAYS be the same length? ... and will ANY of the converted numbers EVER need to be negative values? ...

basic idea: if you'll give us the details, then we can probably write a routine which will do the conversion ... but in order to "bench test" the routine, we'll need specified input examples - and specified output examples ... that way we can be sure that we're hitting the target ... with that in mind, the more examples that you provide, the more likely that whatever we come up with will work with all of your inputs ...

 

[Holmzy]

Ron:

Actually all values eventually need to be binary

123C= 5 digit binary ( 16,8,4,2,1)Model
FF = 3 digit binary ( 4,2,1) Style
ES = 3 digit binary ( 4,2,1) type
1E30= 5 digit binary ( 16,8,4,2,1)Colour
1234= 5 digit binary ( 16,8,4,2,1)sequence number

They need to be placed is integer files that once came for push buttons