http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:18:16 GMT DZone Snippets: convert code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2076 // Sometimes one wants to see data in binary <br />// This method converts an arbitrary buffer to 1's and 0's <br /> <br /><code> <br />#include <stdio.h> <br />#include <stdlib.h> <br />#include <memory.h> <br />#include <string.h> <br /> <br />char *getBufferAsBinaryString(void *in) <br />{ <br /> int pos=0; <br /> char result; <br /> char bitstring[256]; <br /> memset(bitstring, 0, 256); <br /> unsigned int *input= (unsigned int *)in; <br /> for(int i=31;i>=0;i--) <br /> { <br /> if (((*input >> i) & 1)) result = '1'; <br /> else result = '0'; <br /> bitstring[pos] = result; <br /> if ((i>0) && ((i)%4)==0) <br /> { <br /> pos++; <br /> bitstring[pos] = ' '; <br /> } <br /> pos++; <br /> } <br /> return bitstring; <br />} <br />int main(int argc, char* argv[]) <br />{ <br /> int i=53003; <br /> char buffer[1024]; <br /> char *s=getBufferAsBinaryString(&i); <br /> strcpy(buffer, s); <br /> printf("%s\n", buffer); <br />} <br /></code> <br /> <br />produces this output: <br />0000 0000 0000 0000 1100 1111 0000 1011 Thu, 18 May 2006 20:54:04 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2076 ocorpening (Owen Corpening)